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The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes - Page 132
by William Shakespeare - 1733
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...say, till now, that talk'd of Borne, That her wide walks encompass'd but one man ? Now is it Borne indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O ! you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once, that would have brook'd The eternal...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 596 pages
...When could they say, till now, that lalk'd of Rome, That her wide walks encompass'd but one man ? Now lad, * With tearful eyes add water to the sea, * And give more strength t 0 ! you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus' once, that would have brook'd The eternal...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 204

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1906 - 660 pages
...muffled echoes to the mandates of one man. He is like Cassius exclaiming, but alas too late : ' Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man.' There was no hope, no power, no outlook. The Conscript Fathers indeed still haunted their historic...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...When could they say, till now, that talk'd of Rome, That her wide walks encompass'd but one man? Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, When there is in it but only one man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd...
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre

Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...When could they say (till now) that talk'd of Rome That her wide walks encompass'd but one man? Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man! (I.ii. 154-7) The new order, whose shrine is Caesar's individual but divisible corpse, is a duplicitous,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...man? When could they say, till now, that talkt of Rome, That her wide walls encompast but one man? Now other lectures to her: You understand me: — over and beside Signier Bap O, you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brookt Th'eternal...
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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...could they say, till now, that talk'd of Rome, That her wide walks encompass'd but one man? Now it is Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. (1.2.150-55) But of course Cassius is wishing against the current not only of absolute monarchy but...
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Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of ...

Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar in the second scene of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough. When there is in it but one only man. (1.2.154-155) Cassius' argument is that as a consequence of Caesar's powerful position Rome has lost...
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Giulio Cesare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 248 pages
...When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome, That her wide walls eneompassed but one man? Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brooked Th'eternal...
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The Motivated Sign: Iconicity in Language and Literature 2

Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 412 pages
...join the conspiracy against the would-be king Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play (1.2.154-155): Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough. When there is in it but one only man. being room for many people and not just for one man, ie an autocratic ruler. The pun with its combination...
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