...introduction of the ghost leads the reader to the expectation of the coming disasters of the state. " In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...tenantless — and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gihber in the Roman streets." The character of Hamlet himself resembles in many respects that which,...

...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....

...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...

...most high and palmy state of Rome, A litde ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood [tenandess] and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (Ii112-16) Marcellus's earlier description of the "portentous figure" of the Ghost (Ii1og) and Horatio's...

...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...

...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...

...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...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, 115 115. tenantless} tennatliffe QaQ3. and} Om. Pope,...

...dead] CAPELL (i, 104) compares: 'Graves yawn, and yield your dead.' — Much Ado, V, iii, 19; and also: 'A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.' — Hamlet, I, i, 113. — MALONE likewise quotes the foregoing passages. 24. Fierce fiery . . . vpon...

.... . eclipse' to the end. so that his text reads: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A linle ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless....sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets, And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harhingers preceding still the fates And prologue to...

...That was and is the question of these wars. HORATIO 112 A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. 113 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, 115 The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; 117...