 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 winter's flaw!  Texas School Journal - Page 251905Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 1042 pages
...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 - American literature - 1844 - 486 pages
...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 - Education - 1851 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - Great Britain - 1851 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | India - 1852 - 556 pages
...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 - American essays - 1854 - 304 pages
...we will whisper just a word : that dust was warm once, loved once, beauty once. " Imperious Ctesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : Oh I that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw 1" What... | |
 | 1855 - 388 pages
...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 - Common fallacies - 1858 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Booth Parsons - Theater - 1860 - 408 pages
...Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence." "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... | |
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