And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped... The Congressional Globe - Page 377by United States. Congress - 1833Full view - About this book
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Cos. Brutus, bay not me : *11 not endure it. You forget yourself To hedge me in : I am a soldier, Older... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ?— I had rather be a dog, and bay* the moon, Than such a Roman. Cas. Brutus, bay not me, I'll not endure it: you forget yourself, To hedge me inf; I am a soldier,... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much tra^h, as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Cas. Brutus, bay not me ; I'll not endure it : I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself... | |
| Marie Joseph B. de Chénier - 1824 - 582 pages
...vile trash , By any indirection. ÉPITRE DÉDICATOIRE On est encore plus révolté de ces paroles : I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon , Than such a Roman. J'aime mieux être un chien , et aboyer à la lune , qu'être un pareil Romain. Warburton défend Shakespeare... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. c. CARE. You have ungently, Brutus, Stole from my bed : and yesternight, at supper, You suddenly arose,... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 582 pages
...détour tirer des mains du paysan sa pauvre obole. On est encore plus révolté de ces paroles : 1 had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. J'aime mieux être un chien , et aboyer à la lune , qu'être un pareil Romain. Warburton défend Shakespeare... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, "or so much traj-h, as may be grasped thus ? — had rather be a dog, and bay* the moon, Than such a Roman. Cos. Brutus, bay not roe, .'11 not endure it : you forget yourself, To hedge me in £ I am a soldier,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...would surrender my station here, for I aspire not to imitate the rash boy who sat (ire to the Ephesian dome. No, sir, I will lend no aid to the passage of this bill. I had almost said that " I bad rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman." I will not yet despair; Rome had her Curtius,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - 1825 - 234 pages
...bribes? And sell the mighty mreJ of our lu-ge honorf F«r to much trash as may b« grasped thus? J had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Kouian. Cat. Brutus, bay not me, I'll not endure it; yuu forget yourself, To hedge me in; I am a (-oluier,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...bribes? And sell the mighty space 'of our large honours, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Cas. Brutus, bay 3 not me, 1 Nice here means silly, simple. See vol. iii. p. 393, note 6. 2 This question... | |
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