...superior, if the swimming contest be admitted, and, after all, Caesar suggested it as a test of 'daring'. Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper...start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. (i. ii. 128) This frail man 'is now become a God' (i. ii. 1 16). Cassius must bow to him. Cassius'...

...colour fly, And that same eye whose hand doth awe the world Did lose his lustre; I did hear him groan. Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark...start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii) Thus, ressentiment may issue in action when the conditions from which...

...colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan: Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark...cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,' As a sick girl. (1, 2, 97-128) It is important for the leading conspirator, in this case Cassius, to denigrate the...

...eye sees not itself but by reflection, by some other thing." Act one, Scene 2, Brutus to Cassius 2. "It doth amaze me, a man of such a feeble temper should...start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone." Act one, Scene 2, Cassius to Brutus (continued) Caesar and Current Events (continued) Group 2 1 . "Men...

...Cassius's scorn for these infirmities, including Caesar's inability to cross the Tiber, is undisguised: "it doth amaze me / A man of such a feeble temper...start of the majestic world / And bear the palm alone" (1.2.128-31). 13 Occasional illness, and failure to qualify for the swimming team, have never precluded...

...William Shakespeare, in La commedia degli errori, IV, 4, 44. 22. «farsi avanti.. grandi»: Id., «A men of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone», Giulio Cesare, I, 2, 130-131 (parole di Cassio a Bruto, a proposito della debolezza del divo Cesare)....

...more unbearable for Cassius is the lie of it. "Ye gods, it doth amaze me," he rails, "A man of such feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world, / And bear the palm alone!" (1.2.128-131). Caesar is deaf in one ear, arguably impotent, and suffers from epilepsy. He is no better...

...waves to the shore. It frustrates and infuriates Cassius that a man of such a weak constitution should "get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone" (p. 41). And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body...

...fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world 130 Did lose his luster. I did hear him groan. Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark...cried "Give me some drink, Titinius" As a sick girl. You gods, it doth amaze me 135 A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic...

...be all-round great - mens sana in corpore sano. Hence Cassius does make a point at a certain level: Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark...cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,' As a sick girl. (124-7) The gibe is fair, the more so as it takes the form of a parody of rhetoric, 'that tongue of...