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Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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f PubtiuswJ Cimbers sentence. Ccesar repties, I could be well movd if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me ; But I am constant as the Northern star. Of whose true-fixed and resting quality. There is no fellow in the firmament. The shies are painted loith unnumbered sparks ; They are all fire, and exery one doth move. Yet in the number I do know but one. That unassailable holds on his rank Unshakd of motion- ; and that I am he Let me a little shew it, even in this. That I was constartt Cimber should be banished. And constant do remain to keep him so. Cinna. O, Ccesar ! Ccesar. Hence ! Wilt thou lift up Olympus ? Decius. Great Ccesar ! Ccesar. Doth not Brutus bootless kneel ?Casca. Speak, hands, for me ! Casca stabs Ccesar in the neck. Casar catches hold of his arm. He isthen stabbed by several other conspirators, and last by Marcus Brutus.Ccesar. Et tti Tirute ?— Then fall. Caesar.Dies. The Senators and people retire in confusion. Shakespeares Julius Ccesar.
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CESARS DEATH 183 CAGES FOR MEN killed in the capitol. Thus Polonius saysto Hamlet, I did enact Julius CaBsar; Iwas killed i the capitol (Hamlet, act iii.sc. 2). And Chaucer says: This Julius to the capitole wente . . .And in the capitole anon him henteThis false Brutus, and his other soon,And sticked hhn with bodekins anon.Canterlnmj Tales (The Monks Tale, 1388). Ciesar^s Famous Despatch, Veni, vidi,vici, written to the senate to announcehis overthrow of Pharnaees king of Pon-tus. This hop, skip, and a jump was,however, the work of three days. Ccesafs Wars. The carnage occasionedby the wars of Caesar is usually estimatedat a million fighting men. He won 320triumphs, and fought 500 battles. Seeabove, Gssab (Caius Julius). What milhons died that Caesar might be great!Campbeh, The Pleasures of Hope, u. (1799). Plutarch expressly tells us he was killedin Pompeys Porch or Piazza; and in Ju-lius Caesar Shakespeare says he fell eenat the base of Pompeys statue (act iii.sc. 2). Ccesar, the Me

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