 | 1964 - 158 psl.
...HORATIO. E'en so, my lord. HAMLET.1 To what base uses we may return, Horatio I [Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? HORATIO. 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET. No, faith not a jot ; but to follow... | |
 | Lionel Charles Knights - 1966 - 284 psl.
...fantasy of the progress of Alexander: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? To which, you remember, Horatio replies, "Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so'; but Hamlet... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 psl.
...fantasy of the progress of Alexander: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? To which, you remember, Horatio replies, "Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so'; but Hamlet... | |
 | Sidney Homan - 1981 - 246 psl.
...Hamlet, however, imagination is not to be restrained but to be employed. For him "Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole" (5.1.224-26)? When Horatio tries to moderate that desire to get a fellowship in the company of players... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 psl.
...then on Alexander the Great, a figure distanced by time and emblematic usage: "Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?" (5.1.225-26). But again he is interrupted by mortality closer to home Ophelia's funeral. This is a... | |
 | Henry Rider Haggard, Norman Etherington - 1991 - 292 psl.
...hole to keep the wind away” and ‘lb what base uses we may return Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole” (Hamlet, act 5, scene 1). Finding a use for human remains exercised the mind of the utilitarian philosopher... | |
 | Jeremy J. Smith - 1999 - 270 psl.
...Puh. Hor. E'ene so, my Lord. Ham. To what base vses we may returne Horatio. Why may not Imagination trace the Noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole. Hor. Twere to consider: to curiously consider so. 34 Ham. No faith, not a lot. But to follow him thether... | |
 | Peter J. Tamburro - 2016 - 598 psl.
...the singular drama of one human life returns to the common store of matter : Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole ? ' Ex nihilo nihilfa. For some of the ancients even time was not unique since in the cycle of the... | |
 | John Green, Paul Negri - 2000 - 68 psl.
...HORATIO. E'en so, my lord. HAMLET. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why, may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole? HORATIO. Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. HAMLET. No, faith, not a jot,- but to follow... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 psl.
...graveyard as the end of all greatness: "To what base uses we must return, Horatio; why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole?" (5.1). The world, in Hamlet's view, "is an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross... | |
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No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth... 
