 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...intended to put less favorable aspects in perspective and leaves us with an impression of heroic nobility: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...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 was a man!' (v. 5. 69- 76)... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...them all Marc Antony, in the final speech of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, praises the now-dead Brutus: "This was the noblest Roman of them all. / All the...only he, / Did that they did in envy of great Caesar" (Vv6870). As applied to Judge, the line is ironic. After Blavatsky's death in 1891 , Judge in America... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (JC 5.5.68-75) No doubt "elements" does signify the physical... | |
 | 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...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 was a man!' (68-75) Finally... | |
 | 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...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 was a man!' 50 0 reason... | |
 | 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...elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world: "This was a man!" (V.1. 68-75) What renders Augustine's approach to these... | |
 | 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,...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) This explains why Cassius needs Brutus among... | |
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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,... 
