 | Elegant extracts - 1816
...begin to make A better life : 'tis paltry to be Caesar ; Not being fortune, he 's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; and it is great To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Ca;sar's. Cleopatra's Dream, and Description of Antony. Cleo. I dream'd, there was an emperor Antony... | |
 | 1853
...greatly prefer it to the old corrector's amendment. Cleopatra, contemplating snicide, says, " It ia great To do that thing that ends all other deeds,...bolts up change ; Which sleeps, and never palates more tho dung, The beggar's nurse and Ciesar's." " Dnng" here is probably used contemptuously, and must... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1818
...begin to make A better life : 'Tis paltry to be Caesar ; Not being fortune, he 's but fortune's knave', A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. Enter, to the Gates of the Monument, PROCULEIUS, GALLUS, and Soldiers. Pro. Caesar sends... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed - 1819
...to make A better life : "Tis paltry to be Cœsar ; Not being fortune, ne' s but fortune's knave, Л minister of her will ; And it is great To do that...Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar s nurse and Cscsar's. Enter, to the gates of the monument, PnotuI.EIUS, GALLUS, and Soldiers.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed - 1820
...CRARMIAN, and IRAS. Cleo. My desolation does begin to make A better life: 'Tis paltry to be Csesar; Not being fortune, he 's but fortune's knave,2 A minister...change ; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dungi The beggars nurse and Caesar's.3 1 Enter Cleopatra, &c.] Our author, here, (as in King Henry... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe - 1821
...begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave a , A minister of her will; And it is great To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's 4 . 1 Enter Cleopatra, &c.] Our author, here, (as in King Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. I.) has attempted... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821
...better life : 'tis paltry to be Caesar ; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave t, ' lu. t Servant. A minister of her will ; and it is great' To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. Enter, to the Gates of the Monumenl, PRocULBIUs, GALLUs, and Soldiers. Pro. Clcsar sends... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer, Edward Capell, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe - 1821
...is seized, within the monument. MALONE. 3 — fortune's KNANE,] The servant of fortune. JOHNSON. * And it is great To do that thing that ends all other...never palates more the DUNG, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.] The difficulty of the passage, if any difficulty there be, arises only from this, that the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Sir Thomas Hanmer, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), William Warburton, George Steevens, Edward Capell, Isaac Reed, Nicholas Rowe, Arthur Brooke, Richard Farmer, George Chalmers - 1821
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 | William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1823
...begin to make A better life : 'Tis paltry to be Caesar ; NTot being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.' Enter, to the Gates of the Monument, PROCULEIUS, GALLUS, and Soldiers. Pro. Cassar sends... | |
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My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change;... 
