 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 276by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. * * * As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star, Upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...and palmy state of Rome, / A little ere the mightiest Jmuiius fell, f' The graves stood tenanfless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. As, stars with trains of fire shed dews of blood, Disaster's dimm'd the sun ; and the moist star, Upon... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 pages
...to the portents which preceded the assassination of Julius Caesar when The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . . . and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pages
...Marcellus and Barnardo that before the assassination of Julius Caesar 'the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets', Horatio, like Calphurnia, shows himself susceptible to portents, omens, dreams, though he admits this... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless oll! — a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...little ere the mightiest Julius fell — Horatio's musing is spooky — The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. The others shiver. In Berkeley they crossed themselves. As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood.... | |
 | Richard Langton Gregory - 1994 - 290 pages
...nothing happens: Horatio. A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. . . . The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood . . . Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse . . .... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
 | R. Rawdon Wilson - 1995 - 322 pages
...most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 pages
...reminds Bernardo and Marcellus that before Julius Caesar was killed, "the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets" (1.1.115-116). The opening of the graves and appearance of spirits foretell not only disruption of... | |
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