 | Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Fiction - 1997 - 308 pages
...Chinese. CHAPTER XXII WHITEWASH AND CLAY Alexander died. Alexander was buried. Alexander retumeth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam. And...loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel? Hamlet fact, at one time doubted, but now established beyond dispute, that some tribes... | |
 | Eve Rachele Sanders - Drama - 1998 - 288 pages
...Why, may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till a find it stopping a bung-hole? . . . Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?" (5.1.191-2, 196-8, 201-5). In this passage, Hamlet puts to rest the notion that humanist imitation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...too curiously to consider so. HAMLET No faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty 175 enough, and likelihood to lead it, as thus : Alexander...he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, 1*0 Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away. Oh that that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 356 pages
...No faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; 210 as thus - Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, 215 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.... | |
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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 into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was... 
