 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...  Composition and Rhetoric - Page 82by Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - 1991 - 334 pages
...speeches, the victors, Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar, eulogize Brutus. Mark Antony speaks first: This was the noblest 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... | |
 | Klaus Peter Müller - 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 did in envy of great Caesar;/ He, only in a general honest thought/ And common good to all, made one of them." I view this... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 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 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...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 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... | |
 | R. Rawdon Wilson - 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, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pages
...celebration of Brutus as the single man able to subordinate private, particular end to the general good: 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... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - 1996 - 232 pages
...he believed. Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Mark Antony a fine tribute to his enemy Brutus: 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... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - 1996 - 404 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 pages
...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, 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... | |
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