Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone of Sophocles? Is not the history which...
...Hayes will read tonight in Sever 11 among other selections, Longfellow's Sicilian's Tale, "King Robert of Sicily," in "Tales of a Wayside Inn," the Forum scene from "Julius Caesar," and Browning's "Count Gismond...
...class for the study of Shakespeare, under the direction of Mr. Curry, has been formed. The membership is limited to ten or twelve. "Julius Caesar" will be read and acted...
...first performance of "The Hon. Julius Caesar" in the amateur theatricals at Princeton takes place tonight...
...True happiness is not reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...