 | James Howe - Buddhism and literature - 1994 - 290 pages
...Horatio!" Yet he is unthreatened by this recognition. Instead, he joins in the grave diggers' ironic humor: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? (5.1.202, 207-12) In thus accepting the inevitability of his own death, Hamlet completes the questioning... | |
 | Beau Bauman - Conduct of life - 1994 - 196 pages
...ere is a God." — Moraecnai Levy, founder Jewish Defense Organization rvew York JLmperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep...earth which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall t'expel the [winter's] flaw!" (Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1) — Harvey Greenstein, photographer New Jersey... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...faith, not a jot," he counters, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander •was buried,...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O,... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...himself the right to dream, speculate and allow the imagination to play on the confines of absurdity: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. v, i, 201-7 On two critical... | |
 | 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...was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? He is now quietly taken by this idea of the cycle of greatness and nothingness. HAMLET (continuing)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...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 Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth which... | |
 | 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...converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 22^ Das Wiederaufgreifen... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he... 
