 | 1901 - 578 pages
...the passage as follows, I think that I shall make less alteration than Mu. THISELTUX has made :— The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Such monstrous prodigies were then beheld As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood. Disasters... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson - 1996 - 264 pages
...the King 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 feared events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 pages
...the king no That was and is the question of these wars. HOR. A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead ns Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 pages
...Horatio's fears are more specific. He 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... | |
 | Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...first scene of Hamlet, the scholar Horatio evokes the world of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, where: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 pages
...the graves all gaping wide, { Every one lets forth his sprite . . . ', and Horatio's report that in Rome 'A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, | The...dead | Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets' iHamlet 1.1.i 14-16i. 50 rough magic The renunciation of the potent art is manifest in Prospero's language.... | |
 | Dunbar P. Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton - 1999 - 268 pages
...leaves him (Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4), Horatio telling how a little before Csesar's death the Roman graves stood 'tenantless' and 'the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets' (Hamlet, i. i), and the gravediggers (v. i) coming to the conclusion that no building is more durable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 356 pages
...Onomatopoeia: Using words that are chosen because they mimic the sound of what is being described: 'The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;' (Act 1 scene 1 line 114, page 11) Pastiche: A piece of writing done in imitation of the form and style of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 pages
...the King 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 As stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 pages
...trouble the mind's eye" (1.1.115), he recounts, without a trace of disbelief, how In the high and most palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius...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... | |
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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... 
