 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 418 pągines
...liquors ! H. IV. PT. n. iii. 1. To what base uses we may return, Horatio I Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? H. v. 1. Imperious Cassar, dead, and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away : O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853
...thill. Hor. E'en so, my lord. Ham. 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? Hör. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him... | |
 | PROFESSOR SHEDD - 1853
...meditation amid the graves ! HAM. To what base uses we may return, Horatio 1 Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole ? HOR. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAM. Wo, 'faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853
...Horatio. E'en so, my lord ! Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! AVhy may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? Horatio. 'T were to reason too curiously to consider so. Hamlet. No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853
...scull. Hor. E'en so, my lord. Ham. To what Base uses we may return, Hora110 ! Why may not imagination o'i. Queen. What wilt thou do 7 thou w>'.'. ? //or. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853
...meditation amid the graves ! HAM. 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 ? HOR. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAM. No, 'faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | Sir John Stoddart, William Hazlitt - 1854 - 303 pągines
...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... | |
 | Robert Bigsby - 1854 - 409 pągines
...remark of Hamlet in the grave-yard : " To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of 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 Thomas Brande - 1854 - 382 pągines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854
...meditation amid the graves ! HAM. 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 f HOE. Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAM. No, 'faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
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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... 
