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. Complete Rhetoric - Page 96by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Ant. O, pardon me, tbou piece of bleeding earth. That I am meek and gentle with these butclici> ! Tbou o shal this costly blood : Over thy woun la now do I prophesy, (Which, like dumb months, do ope their... | |
| James Rush - 1833 - 432 pages
...utterance it joins to the sense of the words on which it is set, the expression of joy and exultation. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man, That ever lived in the tide of times. There is a sentiment of exultation, and a superlativeness of compliment in this eulogy, which can not... | |
| Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 pages
...peace, Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes. 1n, i, 194-8 He is one whose nobility was incomparable: Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. 111,i,256-7 His loss is felt with pain: for mine eyes, Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,... | |
| James Bishop - 2010 - 280 pages
...his feelings about the urbanization of the Southwest by favoring a line of Shakespeare's Marc Antony: "Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers." Abbey gleaned from Proudhon, if he hadn't suspected it already, that any bold social change would be... | |
| Paul Nimmo - 1996 - 72 pages
...his friend - but he also plans revenge... DIRECTOR Right - let's hear it then. [Julius Caesar lll,i] O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I...Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To be the voice and utterance... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...more. MARCUS BRUTUS. Prepare the body, then, and follow us. [Exeunt all but ANTONY. MARCUS ANTONIUS. thy wounds now do I prophesy, — Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice... | |
| 1997 - 76 pages
...Mark Antony told the servant that Octavius should wait outside the city until it was safe. ANTONY: O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I...times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! On the day of Caesar's funeral, crowds of people gathered to hear Brutus speak. Brutus stood up and... | |
| Hilary Burningham, William Shakespeare - 1997 - 52 pages
...will get revenge for Caesar's death. Rome will be better off without Caesar. Key Speech MARK ANTONY: 0 pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am...times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Please forgive me, you bleeding lifeless thing, that I am trying to be friendly with your killers.... | |
| Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...his rhetoric has no basis in human feeling. In soliloquy he had expressed grief for Caesar's death: O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I...noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. (3.1.257-60) But he had gone on to express his intention to avenge Caesar and to prophesy that his... | |
| Michael Gelven - 1997 - 188 pages
...after the conspirators leave him alone with the body, Antony expresses exactly this sentiment: Oh! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth. That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; . . . He then takes an oath that, to avenge this wrong, he will visit on all Italy such "domestic fury... | |
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