...'Fire' is also to be associated with 'pity' and 'weeping'. In Act I the Tribunes address the crowd: O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome Knew you not Pompey? (ri 41) The idea of 'hardness' is the reverse of passion's fire. The citizens' 'hearts' will not melt...

...that yet? He's broken your goddamn heart, too." It was true. V {SCENE: Various Stages} Interlude Oh, you hard hearts. You cruel men of Rome. Knew you not Pompey? — Julius Caesar Meanwhile, back in Rome, high above his kingdom of Cavendish, the provost, Dean Buddy...

...of clownishness to the crowd is taken up in the rhetoric which the tribune then addresses to them: O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you...walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation,...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! 40 O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your...

...grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! 35 O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your...

...Caesar (Act I, Sc. i) that you can practise: "You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows; yea, to chimney- tops, Your infants in...

...to be peace or war ? The answer was not long in coming. It was war. 51. THE FLIGHT OF POMPEY. " Oh you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? " — SHAKSPIBE. now assembled his soldiers on the banks of the river Rubicon, which divided Italy...