| 1862 - 822 Seiten
...suggested to the now hackneyed lines — " Imperial Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop n holo to keep the wind away." We have hitherto spoken not...— those elements, in short, which constitute the physical geography of a country — give to each nation a position sure and specific in the commerce... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1899 - 318 Seiten
...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 Seiten
...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... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 446 Seiten
...prospectively, give us concern to imagine that what was once Alexander may bung a beer barrel, or that " Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away." It remains to compare the supposition with Scripture facts, and afterwards with... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 Seiten
...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 - 582 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1886 - 574 Seiten
...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 - 1851 - 346 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beerbarrel ? ' Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O that tbat earth which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel tha... | |
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