 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 ページ
...puts it to utterance. 13 — i. 1. 100 He is the rock, the oak not to be wind-shaken. 28— v. 2. 101 I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. 29 — i. 2. 102 I and my bosom must debate awhile, And then I would no other company. #)— iv. 1.... | |
 | Derek Traversi - 1963 - 300 ページ
...aims are admirably interwoven in the development of the long speech from its significant preface : I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. [I. ii. 95.] The implied criticism of Caesar as 'a thing', inflated beyond the proportions of common humanity,... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1912 - 750 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. 
