Imperial 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 winter's flaw! Tales - Page 215by Harriet Martineau - 1836Full view - About this book
| Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...loam — and why of that loam whereto he was converted, might they not slop a beer barrel ?" , . " Imperial 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... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1831 - 876 pages
...constituting in lorn the limbs, the heart, the brain, of many living creatures ; it need not, pruspectively, give us concern to imagine that what was once Alexander may bung a beer barrel, or that " Imperial Ctesar, dead and turned to clay, mtght stop a hole to keep the wind away." It remains to compare the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 pages
...orders had no hangings. Shakspeare alludes to this rough building of houses even in his time : — " Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." Even the nobility went without glass to their windows in the fourteenth and fifteenth... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...earth we make loam : and why of that loam whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperial 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...earth we make loam : and why of that loam whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperial 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... | |
| Electronic journals - 1886 - 574 pages
...the indecency described above is still more likely to happen now than then. It is bad enough to think that Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away ; but, inasmuch as a great poet or a great historian reflects more glory on his... | |
| Henry Theodore Cheever - Oceania - 1851 - 382 pages
...we make loam : and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel 1 Imperial 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... | |
| Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1851 - 346 pages
...we make loam : and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel ? " Imperial 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... | |
| 1854 - 524 pages
...why of that loam might they not stop a beer-barrel?" I thought again of what Hamlet says of • .' Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away! The past and the present jostle each other strangely in these classic spots. Time... | |
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