 | 1916 - 880 pages
...speech of the masses in all countries and climes. Ample fulfillment is accorded the prophecy of Cassius: How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted o'er In states unborn and accents yet unknown I And yet this universal recognition of Shakespeare's surpassing genius tends to obscure the perception... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...o'er our heads, Let's all cry, ' Peace, freedom, and liberty ! ' 110 Cassius. Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er, In states unborn and accente yet unknown ! Brutus. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1979 - 204 pages
...emphasized by the ceremony of washing in Caesar's blood, with the portentous reflections of a sacrament. How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er In states unborn and actions yet unknown! (3.1.111-13) But to Antony it is simply an act of butchery ; and butchers is what... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...yet in print. The Winter's Tale, copyright © 1969; Introduction, copyright © Ernest Schanzer, 1969. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted o'er In states unborn and accents yet unknown! (Julius Caesar, lll.i.lll) any ages later, we are still enjoying Shakespeare's works. But, too often,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 pages
...Church.96 In Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, Cassius, a conspirator against Caesar's life, wonders aloud, "How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene...o'er, / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" In a country that was 1 1o yet unborn in Cassius's time, Thomas Jefferson remarked that "the tree of... | |
 | Dudley Pope - 1999 - 384 pages
...engaged by several other British ships before the Defiance arrived.) XXV Jeanette's Rescue How niany ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er In states unborn, and accents yet unknown? —SHAKESPEARE (JULIUS CAESAR) ~"W" . ~T~ITH THE LAST SHIPS of Collingwood's division com%^k/ ing into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...repetition of which before his own play was written probably induced him to insert the following: ' — How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...o'er, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown!' [ll. 128-130, below]. 'The accents yet unknown' could not allude toDr Eedes's Latin play exhibited... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 pages
...spoke Of most disastrous chances Of moving accidents, By jlood and field. A good story is timeless How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er? [Henry V IViii51] [Richard III IV iv 357] [King Lear V iii 14] [King Lear V iii 12] [Henry V IV iii... | |
 | Tara Mata - 2008 - 102 pages
...of the world. The following passage shows his knowledge of cyclical recurrence (Julius Caesar, 3.1): "How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted o'er. In states unborn and accents yet unknown." The imperishable wisdom of Solomon has left us these profound lines (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11) : "The thing... | |
 | 1898 - 664 pages
...is, as we have already suggested, one ot the most wonderful of political documents. Cassius asks: ' How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted o'er In states unborn, and accents yet unknown!' He speaks with his sword dripping blood, and only of the murder; but his words are as true of the plot... | |
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How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er In states unborn and accents yet unknown! 
