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" This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that... "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical - Page 15
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Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature

Timothy Hampton - History - 1990 - 332 pages
...exemplary figure as sharp as in Antony's famous eulogy of Brutus, the speech that closes the play: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought "'On the historical melancholy that pervades the play, see Frye, Fools of Time, 36; and Kastan, Shakespeare...
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Englisches Theater der Gegenwart: Geschichte(n) und Strukturen

Klaus Peter Müller - English - 1993 - 560 pages
...republicans of the old Roman constitution, are defeated. Mark Antony says privately of the assassin Brutus: "All the conspirators save only he/ Did that they...thought/ And common good to all, made one of them." I view this in retrospect through the spectacles of Jan Kott's book, Shakespeare Our Contemporary....
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure, act III, scene ii, lines 117-18. Isabella is speaking. 1160 This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was...
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Shakespearean Narrative

R. Rawdon Wilson - Drama - 1995 - 322 pages
...humoral model in mind when he has Antony praise Brutus for the balanced composition of his nature: This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators,...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures. This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This...
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Shakespeare's World of Death: The Early Tragedies

Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...armies arrive. Octavius is clearly in charge, and Antony is present only to pay tribute to Brutus: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This...
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Oxford Latin Course, Part 3

M. G. Balme, James Morwood - Foreign Language Study - 1996 - 232 pages
...what he believed. Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Mark Antony a fine tribute to his enemy Brutus: This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This...
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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays

Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...the play, when the conspirators have been defeated, Antony's admiration for Brutus is undiminished: This was the noblest Roman of them all, All the conspirators,...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This...
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The Birth of Philosophic Christianity: Studies in Early Christian and ...

Ernest L. Fortin - Philosophy - 1996 - 404 pages
...Julius Caesar, Antony cannot praise the slain Brutus more highly than by calling him simply "a man": This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world: "This...
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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...Morton, World of the Levellers, 18. 39. In his eulogy over the body of Brutus, Mark Antony affirms, "All the conspirators save only he / Did that they...thought / And common good to all, made one of them" (5.5.69-72). 40. Richard Fly's discussion of Alcibiades strikes me as particularly useful, in "The...
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