 | Volney Patrick Gay - Psychology - 1992 - 388 pages
...associations: 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...to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; of why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him th1ther 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 200 loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious... | |
 | Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - Performing Arts - 1992 - 164 pages
...so.] No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty9 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,10 and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - Education - 1993 - 548 pages
...fictionalises the downfall of Alexander: Alexander died, Alexander was buried. Alexander returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?69 Thus begins a series of more or less comic reflections on the 'disjunctive' human body... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...HAMLET. 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...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? (Exit CLOWN.) But soft, but soft awhile! Here comes the King. (Enter KING, QUEEN, LAERTES,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...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...he was 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... | |
 | 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)... | |
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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... 
