| 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... | |
| 1980 - 496 Seiten
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| 1934 - 544 Seiten
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| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1855 - 482 Seiten
...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. 0 that Unit earth which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! ' " And yet... | |
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