 | Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - Drama - 1991 - 248 pages
...[Knock within.] BRUTUS Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks. (Beat 2.1.59-60) BRUTUS Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept....instruments Are then in council; and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Beat 2.1.61-9) Lucius... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1992 - 770 pages
...the distracting anxiety so nobly described by Shakespeare Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a litde kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.391 Though the violence of his passion had... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...trigger has been pulled. Let us now see the passage in full: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' [Julius Caesar II. 1.63) There is no ubiquitous psychopathology of homicide. 'Between... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...author puts into the mouth of Brutus, in his Julius Ccesar: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the whole state of man Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. [2.1.63ff.]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...[Knock within. MARCUS BRUTUS. 'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks, [Ежа LUCIUS. Since Cassius ht that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's...won, Save base authority from others' books. These of an insurrection. Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...though what this speech lacks of Hamlet is a suspicion of the generalizing turn of mind: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept....Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) The generalizing rhetoric of this speech subtly counteracts the problem... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
..."with himself at war" (1.2.46). Later, after Cassius's intense recruitment, he muses, Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept....Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) We cannot imagine that Cassius lost any sleep or that he would have... | |
 | B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...dance has become a modern infertility dance. 11.72-90: cf. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Julius Caesar n, i, see note ii, page 2.04) But there may have been a more immediate... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...jealousy, unalloyed and deadly. He then goes on to rouse that same emotion in Brutus: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept....the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. (ni 61-5) That 'first motion' is begun because of Cassius's poison. It is reasonable to suppose that... | |
 | Ronald Schuchard - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 293 pages
...Superior Landlord," a five-page typescript (Kings 's) related to Sweeney Agonistes. Brutus continues: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in...Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection (66-69). 16. "The Duchess of Malfy," Listener 26 (18 December 1941), 8. 17. "Beyle... | |
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I have not slept Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers... 
