 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1963 - 300 pages
...belittlement colours the speaker's words and is related to its true cause in the revealing conclusion : this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched...bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. [I. ii. 1 15.] Perhaps it is not altogether certain that Cassius might not, in his innermost heart,... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...Cassius, or I sink. Then, as ^Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy, upon his shoulders, The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tyber,...and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod at him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake... | |
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Did I the tired Caesar : And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. 
