 | George Washington - Agriculture - 1844 - 84 pages
...to the task, and on the tombstone of the illustrious WASHINGTON let it be engraved — •&• His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, — This was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he, Did what they did in envy of great Caesar; His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world: "This was a man!" (Vv68-75) This famous tribute is not quite truthful; Brutus... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...envy of 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 that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, act V, scene v, lines... | |
 | William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...Caesar, about Brutus as an ideal exemplifying the grandeur and the majesty of humankind: (419) His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" About two generations after Shakespeare's time, in the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...declares of Brutus, with a small Alteration of the Words: This was the noblest Poet of 'em all! His Life was gentle, and the Elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the World, THIS WAS A GENIUS ! Hic et Ubique. [d]No. 1717: Feb. 20/21, 1772 DRAMATIC... | |
 | R. Rawdon Wilson - Drama - 1995 - 322 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - Philosophy - 1996 - 404 pages
...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, 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
...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 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... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...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, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) The speech echoes Brutus's own admission, "And... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - Foreign Language Study - 1996 - 232 pages
...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 that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This was a man!' When Julius Caesar saw Brutus, his trusted friend, attacking... | |
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His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man! 
