 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 էջ
...the Conspiracy against Cesar. — TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CESAR. 1. HONOR is the subject of my story — I cannot tell what you and other men . Think of this life ; but for my single selfj I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as myself. I was born free as Cesar... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1912 - 750 էջ
...there be a rabble, we all belong to it. To fear mob rule in America is to tremble at one's own shadow. "I had as lief not' be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself." We have always denied the need and the existence of a ruling class. The nearest approach we have to... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 էջ
...only too personal. What nags at him is simply envy of Caesar: 'for my single self, he says to Brutus: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. . . . . . . And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 էջ
...Spenser and Irving Ribner - take the same view.65 After all, Cassius, who was no philosopher, said: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (Julius Caesar, 1.2.95-6) To a groundling - and why should we neglect him? - the meaning 96 surely... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - 1990 - 332 էջ
...admiration. This self-promotion is figured by Cassius in his speech to Brutus as a kind of self-admiration: I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this...as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (1-2.93-96) Like Montaigne's Cato, Caesar becomes the spectator of his own glory. His description of... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 էջ
...the British Labor movement—the communist trades unionist Tom Mann was still roaring out in old age: "I had as lief not be as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself." 21 For the centenary of US independence in 1875-76, republican sentiments were combined with the nineteenth-century... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - 1996 - 363 էջ
...the President, and of the dangerous consequences that may follow a refusal of his request, still— 'I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself'." 21 A week later, Humphrey once more turned to Dill for help, this time stating his demand even more... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 էջ
...freedom — specifically with freedom from Caesar. Cassius is totally sincere in his belief that he had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself (95-96) because he was "born as free as Caesar." Brutus' ignorance of Cassius' manipulation makes him... | |
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. 
