 | Anna Morgan - 1918 - 252 pages
...the extreme length of the play closed with Hamlet's speech at the end of the grave digger's scene: "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away; O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | Rudolph Schevill - 1918 - 372 pages
...conceptos. "To take up arms against a sea of troubles" is a concepto, as is also Hamlet's little doggerel : Imperious Caesar dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1921 - 338 pages
...till he find it stopping a bung-hole !" A rat running off with the heart of Napoleon in his mouth! "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay. Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." The Northern Neck of Virginia, and along the tidewater of the Potomac, the Rappahanock,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1921 - 168 pages
...compounded... clay. Cp. "the brain of this foolish compounded clay, man," 2 Henry IV., I. ii. 8 ; and "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away," Hamlet, vi 236. 11. rehearse, repeat. The word has become ' specialized ' in modern... | |
 | Josiah Coleman Kent - 1921 - 628 pages
...the central portion of Mr. Jenness's large barn. "To what base uses we may yet return, Horatio! . . . Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." at the next town meeting (March, 1810) is interesting as throwing some light on... | |
 | 1923 - 346 pages
...earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel f Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: Oh that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 pages
...the possible posthumous functions of human clay, referring recognizably to Hamlet's famous couplet: "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away" (V, i, 236-7). Emerson also was quoting from Shakespeare a remark by Imogen in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1980 - 388 pages
...earth 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. aio 0, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t'expel... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 pages
...inspire him to compose a jig as an end piece to their tragic tale, just as a clown was expected to do: Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall t'expel the... | |
 | Volney Patrick Gay - 1992 - 388 pages
...earth we make loam; of 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! O, that the earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's... | |
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Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 
