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Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, upon this bank and shoal of time.Wed jump the life to come.—But in these cases.We still have judgment here; that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, returnTo plague the inventor : This even-handed justiceCommends the ingredients of our poisoned chaliceTo our own lips. Hes here in double trust:First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,Strong both against the deed: then, as his host, Who should against his murtherer shut the doer.Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this-DuntanHath borne his faculties so meek, hath beenSo clear in his great office, that his virtuesWill plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, again--The deep damnation of his taking-off:And pity, like a naked new-born babe.Striding the blast, or heavens cherubim, horsedUpon the sightless couriers of the air,Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,That tears shall drown the wind.—I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which oerleaps itself.And falls on the other. ^l.-^
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TH E G RE AT PO ETS QF. ENGL AN D WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 561 ANTONYS ORATION AT CESARS FUNERAL.•Julius C^sar, Act III, Scene 2. RIENDS, Romans, countrymen, lend meyour ears;I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones;So let it be with Caesar. The noble BrutusHath told you, Cssar was ambitious:If it were so, it was a grievous fault,And grievously hath Caesar answerd it.Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest(For Brutus is an honorable man,So are they all, all honorable men),Come I to speak in Caesars funeral.He was my friend, faithful and just to me:But Brutus says, he was ambitious;And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransom did the general coffers fill:Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious;And Brutus is an honorable man.You all did see, that on the

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