 No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he...  Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ... - Page 197by E. H. Seymour - 1805Full view - About this book
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...jot," he counters, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander •was buried, Alexander...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... | |
 | Jonathan Sawday - Art - 1995 - 382 pages
...the processes of decay which transform the body of Alexander into the bung which stops a beer barrel: 'Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...earth, of earth we make loam, and why of that loam whereof he was converted might they not stop a beerbarrel?' (Vi201-5). Hamlet's corporeal philosophy,... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...and likelihood to lead it, as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? He is now quietly taken by this idea of the cycle of greatness and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...HAM. No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it. Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we iso make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious... | |
 | Jutta Schamp - Time in literature - 1997 - 382 pages
...sterbliche Überreste dienen bestenfalls dazu, ein Loch in der Hauswand oder ein Bierfaß zu stopfen: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to... | |
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