 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; 'tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament, And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And dip their napkins in his sacred blood— And, dying,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...Let there be light." It is often elegantly put for a conditional clause ; as, " Let but the commons hear this testament, and they would go and kiss dead Caesar's •wounds" = Could the commons, &c., or, If the commons could but hear, &e. 15. The infinitive is used in abridged... | |
 | Edward Riches De Levante - 1869 - 296 pages
...me presently a riding suit, no costlier than would fit a franklin's housewife. Let but the commons hear this testament, and they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds. Ever note, Lucilius, when love begins to sicken and decay, it uses an enforced ceremony. I sent to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...the parchment with the seal of Caesar : I found it in his closet, 'tis his will. Let but the Commons hear this testament. . . . And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds. 4 Cit. We'll hear the will : read it, Mark Antony. Ant. I fear I wrong the honourable men Whose daggers... | |
 | Cora Marsland - Readers - 1902 - 270 pages
...a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet ; 'tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...parchment, with the seal of Caesar ; I found it in his closet ; 'tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1897 - 318 pages
...after take is compound, consisting of honor, imagination, and poetry. 157 — 6. Let but the commons hear this testament, and they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds. Commons (to) hear is the object complement of Id, commons being the assumed subject of hear. 157 —... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1913 - 456 pages
...eat, or you will die. 5. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom. 6. Let but the commons hear this testament, and they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds. 7. Men are carrying umbrellas; it is raining. 8. Have ye brave sons? look in the next fierce brawl... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 370 pages
...tiny scrap of Caesar's remains in the minds of the plebeians, as Antony intends, Let but the commons hear this testament . . . And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea beg a hair of him for memory, And dying mention it within... | |
| |
tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich... 