 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...worst that can be said of him therefore, is, that he has kept his word. " Why," says our poet, " may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole ?" These masters of ridicule may be tracked to a state of similar degradation, through the works of... | |
 | George Huddesford - English poetry - 1801 - 198 pages
...capacity of Harbinger to the blacking-brush. " 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." — Hamlet. Sic transit Gloria Mundi ! * Mr. William Law, the illuminated disciple of Jacob Behmen,... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 196 pages
...capacity of Harbinger to the blacking-brush. " To what bane uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may " not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he " find it stopping a bung-hole." — Hamlet. Sic transit Gloria Mundi ! * Mr. William Law, the illuminated disciple of Jacob Behmen,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...\Thrmcs down the 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. Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...[Throws down the 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. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...[Throws down the 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. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him... | |
 | 1805 - 622 pages
...Ö', 1805. DoFEUMN. For the Universal Magazine. AN KNUUir.Y RESPECTING ALEXASDER'E TOMB. " Whv may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? As thus : Alexander diet! ; Alexander was buried : Alexander retunicth to dust ; .the dust is earth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...[Throws down the scuU. Hor. E'en so, my lord. Hani. 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. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...And smelt so? pah! I/or. E'en so, my lord. Ham. To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I, That the mad * Brutus ende bung' Hor. It were to consider too curiously to conskier so. Ham. No, 'faith, not a jot; but to follow... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...And smelt so ? pah ! 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. Twcre to consider too curiously, to consider so. Ham. No, 'faith, not a jot; but to... | |
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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... 
