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As he appeared through the morning mist, Brown, accustomed to judge of men by their thewes and sinews, could not help admiring his height, the breadth of his shoulders, and the steady firmness of his step. Dinmont internally paid the same compliment to Brown, whose athletic form he now perused somewhat more at leisure than he had done formerly.
Casca. 'Tis Caesar that you mean: Is it not, Cassius? Cassius. LET IT BE WHO IT is: for Romans now Have thewes and limbs like to their ancestors; But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead, And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits; Our yoke and sufferance shows us womanish. Casca. Indeed, they say, the senators to-morrow Mean to establish Caesar as a king.
In the "Faery Queene," Tristram, in answer to the inquiries of Sir Calidore, informs him of his name and parentage, and concludes: "All which my days I have not lewdly spent, Nor spilt the blossom of my tender years In idlesse; but, as was convenient, Have trained been with many noble feres In gentle thewes, and such like seemly leers; 'Mongst which my most delight hath always been To hunt the salvage chace, amongst my peers, Of all that rangeth in the forest green, Of which none is to me unknown that yet was seen.
Let it be WHO IT IS: For Romans now Have thewes and limbs like to their ancestors. 'I think he'll be to Rome As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it By sovereignty of nature. The poet finds, indeed, this monstrosity full-blown in his time.
Now could I, Casca, Name to thee a man most like this dreadful night; That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol, A man no mightier than thyself, or me, In PERSONAL ACTION; yet prodigious grown, And fearful as these strange eruptions are. ''T is Caesar that you mean: Is it not, Cassius? 'Let it be WHO IT is: for Romans now Have thewes and limbs like to their ancestors.
Let it be WHO IT is, for Romans now Have thewes and limbs like to their ancestors. We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar. Julius Caesar.
The fact that the power which makes these personalities so 'prodigious, so 'monstrous, overshadowing the world, 'shaming the Age' with their 'colossal' individualities, no matter what new light, what new gifts of healing for its ills, that age has been endowed with, levelling all to their will, contracting all to the limit of their stinted nature, making of all its glories but 'rubbish, offal to illuminate their vileness, the fact that the power which enables creatures like these, to convulse nations with their whims, and deluge them with blood, at their pleasure, which puts the lives and liberties of the noblest, always most obnoxious to them, under their heel the fact that this power resides after all, not in these persons themselves, that they are utterly helpless, pitiful, contemptible, in themselves; but that it exists in the 'thewes and limbs' of those who are content to be absorbed in their personality, who are content to make muscles for them, in those who are content to he mere machines for the 'only one man's' will and passion to operate with, the fact that this so fearful power lies all in the consent of those who suffer from it, is the fact which this Poet wishes to be permitted to communicate, and which he will communicate in one form or another, to those whom it concerns to know it.
"That villain," exclaimed the Dwarf, "that cool-blooded, hardened, unrelenting ruffian, that wretch, whose every thought is infected with crimes, has thewes and sinews, limbs, strength, and activity enough, to compel a nobler animal than himself to carry him to the place where he is to perpetrate his wickedness; while I, had I the weakness to wish to put his wretched victim on his guard, and to save the helpless family, would see my good intentions frustrated by the decrepitude which chains me to the spot.
I have had terms enough at command to bring over this Varangian to my side, in appearance at least; yet all this does not encourage me to hope that I could long keep at bay ten or a dozen such men as these beef-fed knaves appear to be, led in upon me by a fellow of thewes and sinews such as those of my late companion. Yet for shame, Robert! such thoughts are unworthy a descendant of Charlemagne.
"'May I never put lance in rest again, cried Conrad of the Thirty Mountains, 'but the Margravine hath a good eye there be thewes and sinews there. But we must take order with yon infidel scum. How say you, Sirs shall this cavalier have the ordering of the battle? I, for one, will gladly fight beneath his banner' "'And so say I, said Chopinski, 'but he must not go thus.
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