| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 1290 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| QUOTATION: | Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. [text] |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |
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