 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...King That was and is the question of these wars. 1 1 1 Hor. A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...fell. The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead 115 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. ooooo As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,... | |
 | Tiffany Stern - 2004 - 208 pages
...starts, for no particular reason, to relate in lurid detail what happened in Rome before Caesar's murder: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . . . (Q2 B2b, 1.1.113-16) This can be read as a promise of ghoulish pleasures in the other play if... | |
 | Tiffany Stern - 2004 - 203 pages
...to relate in htrid detail what happened in Rome before Caesar's murder: In the most high and pahny state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell....sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . . . (Q2 B2b, 1.1.113-16) This can be read as a promise of ghoulish pleasures in the other play if... | |
 | Jeffrey Kahan - 2004 - 408 pages
...removed. In this sense, Young is reacting against the logic of Shakespeare's characters. 2.1.59-63 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (Hamlet, I.\. 114-16) Both passages refer to reanimating the dead. In the case of Julius Caesar, the... | |
 | Sidney Homan - 2004 - 169 pages
...(1.1.112-25) that occurred before Caesar's death was shortened to: 'A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, there were even the like precursors of fierce events, such prologues to the omen coming on." Julius... | |
 | Martha Barnette - 2005 - 211 pages
..."the evil influence of a star" or "an ominous sign in the heavens," as in this passage from Hamlet: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (The "moist star" mentioned here, by the way, is the moon.) THE ancient Greeks were well acquainted... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 344 pages
...his account of the portents preceding Caesar's assassination, some of which he used again in Hamlet: The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (ii 115-20) Here we have five portents mentioned - ghosts in the streets of Rome, stars with trains... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...king no That was and is the question of these wars. HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets, And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to... | |
 | Nicholas Brooke - 2005 - 240 pages
...Caesar — not Caesar's ghost, but the portents before the murder, and the terms are very striking : In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (113-16) The contrast of diction between 'high and palmy state' and 'squeak and gibber' bodes something... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - 2007 - 560 pages
...Hamlet's father; the question is whether the spirit is an omen: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to... | |
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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 : As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and... 
