...Horatio I Why not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole ? Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay. Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the...

...wilder rate than this, and yet with perfect plausibility. He proved by respectable ratiocination, that 'Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.' Tyrrell was afterward imprisoned in the Tower for treason against King Henry the...

...that altars before which Romans of ' fierce countenance' have bowed, should be put to such a use ! Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that the earth which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the...

...and may change into a thousand shapes. It is a part of this to-day, and a part of that tomorrow — " Imperious Caesar dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." Matter has no will ; it is the servant of mind, becoming whatever mind wishes...

...we 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. 0, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the...

...drawn thought and philosophy from the supposition of the dust of Caesar passing through a key-hole. " Imperious Caesar dead and turned to clay Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." What a subject would it have been for him to handle, that a great mind, yet dwelling...

...say ? Listen, and we will whisper just a word: that dust was warm once, loved once, beauty once. " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: Oh! that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the...

...much more themselves, or as Hamlet, that the dust of Alexander may be found stopping a bunghole : " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away." A few words now on the aristocracy of literature and I am done. Exclusiveness...

...Shakspeare long ago counted upon a universal response, when 'he made Hamlet too curiously consider how " Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." And our latest and greatest poetess, in her Aurora Leigh, makes her hero Romney...

...Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence." "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 0, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the...