| Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...enterprise, as well as Cassius' particular action: "Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?" (19) and: shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,...honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? (23-26) For Cassius the attack is personal, and he descends to direct insult. He is, he says, an "older"... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain toucht his body, that did stab, And not for justice? of thy love's faithful vow for mine. JULIET. I gave...were to give again. ROMEO. Wouldst thou withdraw it? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. CASSIUS. Brutus, bay not me, — I'll... | |
| Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 pages
...Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch' d his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man...honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. CASSIUS: Brutus, bait not me; I'll not... | |
| Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...tainted money at two removes which he would refuse on principle to collect himself directly: . . . What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man...shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? (rv.iii. 21-4) In so far as he is willing to accept the money so vilely raised, the answer has to be... | |
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