| David James Burrell - 1915 - 264 σελίδες
...Brocken of the Alps. What has become of other magnates who ruled the earth in centuries gone by? " Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away." But to-day Christ is the most influential arbiter in mundane affairs. It may be that Macaulay's... | |
| 1918 - 772 σελίδες
...Buffet Con." Aching and angry, TIIK AtTHOrt AT WORK ON THK l.OWEIl BlIIIXiE I say to myself : " Cassar dead and turned to clay may stop a hole to keep the wind away." Then I start for the house, find it, and nearly yell myself on discovering that the Yank failed... | |
| William Shirley Tomkinson - 1921 - 244 σελίδες
...analyse the poets did not love poetry, and produced an average crop of errors in their written work. ' Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away.' Great Caesar's mind is turned to baser purpose, His book 'sa mere grammatical excursus. This... | |
| Richard Roberts - 1921 - 196 σελίδες
...bear upon them the very image and superscription of death. Empires rise, fall and disappear; and Great Caesar, dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away. 168 Institutions flourish and perish, and moth and rust corrupt the treasure that we so painfully... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1923 - 220 σελίδες
...433 AC ), King of the Huns, who plundered the Roman Empire to the gates of the Imperial City. Hamlet. Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay May stop a hole to keep the dust away. Hamlet VI Hell's Squibs. A similar sentiment runs through Pulvis et Umbra. Fire of Rome.... | |
| Lotta Jean Bogert - 1924 - 336 σελίδες
...matter (waste products and decay). We may go further than Shakespeare when he wrote "Imperious Csesar, dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away," for we may well imagine that some of the atoms which went to make up "imperious Csesar" might... | |
| 1897 - 1060 σελίδες
...paper was first made from it. It is not only the old Shakespearian speculation — " Imperial Ca'sar, dead and turned to clay. May stop a hole to keep the wind away ;" but it is clay turned back again into imperial Cffisar. The rags an heiress shrinks from as... | |
| Marshal South - 2005 - 340 σελίδες
...little toy dog which Rider fashions from the moistened earth lurks the ashes of a forgotten saint. Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay May stop a hole to keep the wind away. ...And the world rolls on among the stars — a throbbing, living atom amidst a glorious universe... | |
| Charles E. Schaefer, Heidi Gerard Kaduson - 2007 - 353 σελίδες
...shapes, its utility and beauty. Clay finds its way into our literature, our religion, and our language: Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay may stop a hole to keep the wind away. — SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 1 And man is made from the clay of the earth. . . . Mud... | |
| 1911 - 646 σελίδες
...tree or flower. Man is no exception to the rule — "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." "Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, may stop a hole to keep the wind away." Nations rise and fall ; civilizations are transformed. Universal and ceaseless change implies... | |
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