 | 1865 - 1042 Seiten
...Horatio I Why not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole ? Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay. Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 Seiten
...wilder rate than this, and yet with perfect plausibility. He proved by respectable ratiocination, that 'Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.' Tyrrell was afterward imprisoned in the Tower for treason against King Henry the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1851 - 266 Seiten
...and may change into a thousand shapes. It is a part of this to-day, and a part of that tomorrow — " Imperious Caesar dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." Matter has no will ; it is the servant of mind, becoming whatever mind wishes... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...that altars before which Romans of ' fierce countenance' have bowed, should be put to such a use ! Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that the earth which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 Seiten
...we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel ? Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 0, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | 1852 - 556 Seiten
...drawn thought and philosophy from the supposition of the dust of Caesar passing through a key-hole. " Imperious Caesar dead and turned to clay Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." What a subject would it have been for him to handle, that a great mind, yet dwelling... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...say ? Listen, and we will whisper just a word: that dust was warm once, loved once, beauty once. " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: Oh! that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | 1855 - 388 Seiten
...much more themselves, or as Hamlet, that the dust of Alexander may be found stopping a bunghole : " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away." A few words now on the aristocracy of literature and I am done. Exclusiveness... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 274 Seiten
...Shakspeare long ago counted upon a universal response, when 'he made Hamlet too curiously consider how " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." And our latest and greatest poetess, in her Aurora Leigh, makes her hero Romney... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 Seiten
...once scientific and popular. £ ttmne& £ibrartj. "IMPERIOUS Caesar dead and turn'd to clay Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." Here the live thought...spleen Of a spoilt urchin. Here a leaf from Glanvil Is left to mark a place in On tlie Anvil : And here a heavy-blotted Shakespeare's page Holds up an inky... | |
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Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 
