 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - Education - 2007 - 560 pages
...Hamlet's father; the question is whether the spirit is an omen: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...that of the future PaxRomana is suggested in the opening scene of Hamlet, when Horatio recalls that A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (1.1.114—16) Moments later, Marcellus reports that "ever 'gainst that season comes / Wherein our... | |
 | Laurie E. Maguire - Self-Help - 2006 - 246 pages
...death. His friend Horatio describes the supernatural portents surrounding the death of Julius Caesar: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. . . . and the moist star . . . Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (1.1.114-20) These inflated... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...Unnatural phenomena terrify in the streets and reflect the anger of the gods in cosmic pyrotechnics: The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun . . . 1.1.118-21 Injulius Caesar... | |
 | Michael Millgate - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 329 pages
...is 'Thinking it the king.' Textual Interpretations. When Horatio says that in Julius Caesar's time, 'The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; / As, stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, / Disasters in the sun,' Hardy notes that the last... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2008 - 180 pages
...Hamlet contains a number of significant references to Rome. Very early in the play, Horatio declares. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood. Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
 | Andreas Höfele - Cultural pluralism - 2007 - 363 pages
...moment from the last trumpet that will herald "the great day of wrath" and Christ's return to the earth: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets At stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
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In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets... 
