 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...Brutus' idealizing image of a disinterested sacrifice: O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the...times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! (111.1.2.54-8) After the calculated diplomacy of the dialogue, the soliloquy shows us the undisguised... | |
 | Macdonald Pearman Jackson, Michael Neill - Literary Collections - 1986 - 580 pages
...granted heavenly grace. 83-4 humming . . . wounds: cf. Julius Caesar, III.i. 260-2: 'wounds . . . / Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips / To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue'; a victim's wounds reputedly bled afresh in the presence of the murderer. And breathe defiance to black... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...and hatred that pour out in his prophecy. Antony: O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the...utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 150 pages
...butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hands 76 that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do...prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips 260 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue), A curse shall light upon the limbs of men: Domestic... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 pages
...morning. How much more unexpected and astonishing, therefore, is the sudden outburst of the soliloquy: Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb...utterance of my tongue), A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...off, The choice and master spirits of this age. 43 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the...utterance of my tongue), A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...leave. Left alone, Antony turns to Caesar's corpse: O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers. Thou art the...times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! (254-257) Antony sees Caesar as a man he loved, a supremely noble man, and a symbol of government and... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Literature - 1995 - 1260 pages
...thou bleeding piece of earth. That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins ot the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! apothegm or apophthegm \'ap-D-,them \ [Greek apóphihcgma. a derivative of apophlhengeslhai to speak... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...VICTIMAGE Reviving blood" (II. ii. 87-8). Antony's soliloquy over Caesar's corpse cites the body's wounds, "Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips / To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue" (III. i. 260-1). He declines to read Caesar's will to the plebeians, lest "they would go and kiss dead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...follow us. [Exeunt all but ANTONY. MARCUS ANTONIUS. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and... | |
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which... 
