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He had found even those he had most trusted opposed to him. He had aroused the jealousy not only of the Cæsars and the Crassuses and the Pisos, but also of the Pompeys and Catos and Brutuses. Whom was he not compelled to fear? And yet he could not escape to his books; nor, in truth, did he wish it. He had made for himself a nature which he could not now control.
Fathers had sacrificed their sons and daughters, and husbands their wives; but to imitate their characters, we ought to have not only nerves as strong as the two Brutuses, but to take care that we had a cause as good; or that we had motives for such a dereliction of our feelings as patriotic as those which historians had annexed to these when they handed them to the notice of the world.
The Senate took the place of Shakespeare, and offered real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes, Jack Cades, Falstaffs, and Malvolios endless varieties of human nature nowhere else to be studied, and none the less amusing because they killed, or because they were like schoolboys in their simplicity. "Life is so gay and horrid!"
Faucitt, "though I am aware that there are others here far worthier of such a task Brutuses compared with whom I, like Marc Antony, am no orator I have been asked to propose the health..." "Who asked you?" It was the smaller of the Marvellous Murphys who spoke. He was an unpleasant youth, snub-nosed and spotty.
Fathers had sacrificed their sons and daughters, and husbands their wives; but to imitate their characters we ought to have not only nerves as strong as the two Brutuses, but to take care that we had a cause as good; or that we had motives for such a dereliction of our feelings as patriotic as those, which historians had annexed to these when they handed them to the notice of the world.
* "Vainly have you banished Cassius, if you shall suffer the rivals of the Brutuses to spread themselves and flourish." "Confident of soul and prepared for either fortune." "Nay," said I, "listen to me; you shall not go alone.
* "Vainly have you banished Cassius, if you shall suffer the rivals of the Brutuses to spread themselves and flourish." "Confident of soul and prepared for either fortune." "Nay," said I, "listen to me; you shall not go alone.
During the years of apathy and indifference Samuel Adams accordingly gave his days and nights, with undiminished enthusiasm and a more trenchant acerbity, to the task of making Brutuses of the men of Boston that the fate of Rome might not befall America. They were assured in many an essay by this new Candidus that
A few months later, he made a tour through Italy, and wrote of meeting "a beautiful English girl, who seemed to have fallen in love, not so much with myself as my piano playing, for all English women love with the head I mean they love Brutuses, or Lord Byrons, or Mozart and Raphaels."
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