 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1837 - 444 pages
...in the explosion. " To what base uses we may return ! " exclaims Hamlet. " Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? " The head of AH — of the man who for more than a third of a century had ruled an extensive dominion,... | |
 | 1849 - 564 pages
...Hamlet. Why may not imagination trace the remains of an alderman till we find them poisoning his ward P Horatio. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Hamlet. No faith, not a jot. As thus : HEAVISIDES died, HEAVISIDES was buried, HEAVISIDES became gas, the gas is sidplmretted hydrogen... | |
 | 1865 - 1042 pages
...thinking of the words of Hamlet — " To what base uses we may return, 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... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - 1843 - 668 pages
...immortal bard ! — " Hamlet. — To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it...thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead ns: As thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth ;... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1843 - 624 pages
...lures the navigator to destruction.— JO "WHAT BECAME OF THE EXECUTIONER?" BY CHARLES W. BROOKS. " HORATIO. 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. " HAMLET. No, faith— not a jot. As tlms : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...skull. 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? Hor. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...Scull. 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 bung-hole ? 4 Let me see.] Only in the folio ; and above it characteristically repeats " this same scull, sir."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...Scull. 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 bung-hole? 4 Let me see.] Only in the folio ; and above it characteristically repeats " this same scull, sir."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...scull. 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 bung-hole ? Hor. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...tkull. 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? Hor. "T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him... | |
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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... 
