 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...ol the high"yet healthful-minded Horatio to follow him in his wayward meditation amid the graves ! HAM. To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why...dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole f HOE. Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAM. No, 'faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | Robert Bigsby - Repton (England) - 1854 - 514 pages
...his "Historic Notes"), how apposite appears the speculative remark of Hamlet in the grave-yard : " To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may...Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?" In the present instance we see "the most ancient sepulchral monument which occurs in this county "... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...smelt so ? pah ! [Throws down the scull. (1) Countenance, complexion. Scene I. PRINCE OF DENMARK. ffor. E'en so, my lord. Ham. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace (he noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? ffor. 'Twere to consider too curiously,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Chemistry, Organic - 1854 - 438 pages
...destinies of the dead animal. When we contemplate these matters, we are reminded of Hamlet's query, — " Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole ?" and of the plausible reasoning by which he supports the philosophy of his argument. LECTURE X. ON... | |
 | John Stoddart - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1854 - 340 pages
...use the comparative, which in English is commonly expressed by the adverb too, as when Hamlet says, " Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole ?" Horatio answers " ''Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so ;" that is, more curiously than... | |
 | Church history - 1855 - 272 pages
...forgotten in your own sepulchre to make room for the buskin splendours of a mountebank! After this, "Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole"? — "Imperial Cssar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away; 0 , that the... | |
 | 1855 - 278 pages
...forgotten in your own sepulchre to make room for the buskin splendours of a mountebank! After this, "Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole"? — "Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away; 0, that the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth? HOR. E'en so. HAM. And smelt so? puh! [Puts down the scull. HOR. E'en so, my lord. HAM. To what base uses we may...Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? HOR. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAM. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...till he find it stopping a bunghole ? Horatio. 'Twere to reason loo curiously to consider so. Hamlet. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with...Alexander died ; Alexander was buried ; Alexander returned to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam whereto he was... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth? ...And smelt so! Pah... (Puts down the skull) To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may...imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till 'a find it stopping a bunghole? (He stops, listening to Horatio's reply, then explains — ) ...Alexander... | |
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To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole? 
