 | 1849 - 822 psl.
...all remember what Horatio sayeth to the soldiers in Hamlet, on the coming and going of the Ghost. ' In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; Stars shone with trains of fire, dews of blood fell ; Disasters veiled the sun, and the moist star... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 - 1997 - 212 psl.
...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...of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 psl.
...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...of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 psl.
...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...trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 494 psl.
...Ghosts walked in the City, — not in the Republic. . . . Every hackneyer of this HAMLET [ACTI.SC. i. A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, 115 115. tenantless} tennatliffe QaQ3. and} Om. Pope, Theob. Han. Warb. 116. streets:} Line marked... | |
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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... 
