 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar ! But, alas, Cffisar must bleed for it ! And, g«ntle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully...carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds : And let our hearts, as subtle masters do Stir up their servants to an act... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Caesar must bleed for it ! And, gentle friends, Let 's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully ; Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds : And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, In his own charge, or by ill officers,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 pages
...Caesar must bleed for it ! And, gentle friends, Let 's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully ;• Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds : And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...Tarquin. He says so in his great speech to the conspirators: Let's be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius, Let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. (Hi 166-1 73) Brutus interprets sacrifice as a re-enactment of the foundational violence, the expulsion... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...preparation of meat. This is of course what Brutus had done when he had tried to rationalize Caesar's murder: "Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, / Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds" (JC 2.1.173-74). What Brutus does not see is that the aristocratic hunt is,... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...about to do. Caesar is to bleed, but, as Brutus has said, they will sublimate the act into a sacrifice: Let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. (2.1.172) In performance, everything in the scene will reflect this ceremonial... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...no blood. O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let's kill...carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. (166-1 74) Brutus finally accepts his assassin's role only if the conspirators... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...religious language to justify the conspiracy. They are to be "sacrificers, but not butchers" (2.1.166), to "carve him as a dish fit for the gods not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds" (2.1.173-174), to act as "purgers, not murderers" (2.1.180). Sacrifice is a... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...no blood. O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let's kill...carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. (2.1.166-74) God-meat or dog-meat, we might retort, the effect on Caesar will... | |
 | Ferdinand van Ingen, Christian Juranek - Baroque literature - 1998 - 798 pages
...Götter, / Nicht ihn zerhauen wie ein Aas fur Hunde." („Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers [...] Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; / Let's...carve him as a dish fit for the gods; / Not hew him as „If there be any in this assernbh , any dear friend of Caesar's. to hiin I say that Brutus. love... | |
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Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds... 
