| Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...lit. the youngster made their bile fierce (HuH qu'moH) for a gory quest [quest of bile (HuH Qu')]. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, / a little ere the mightiest Julius fell: lit. In ancient times, in the honorable, prosperous empire of Romulus, a little before the truly great... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...King i io That was and is the question of these wars. HORAT1O 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... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...about the streets. (II.ii.22-24) Contrast this speech with its imitation in Hamlet, when Horatio says, In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (Ii113-16) Julius Caesar has great relevance to our time, though it is gloomier, because it is about... | |
| Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...pandemonium of the Last Day, like the day in Rome (SPQR) whenjulius Caesar fell (on the Ides of March), when 'The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets' . . . 'Putting Allspace in a Notshall' could only happen on the Last Day; doing so would please the... | |
| Howard Riell - 2002 - 561 pages
...the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightlESt Julius fell IN, The GRAVES stood tenantless and the 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... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 592 pages
...true love songs she hums And sits by your bed and brings her knitting." (John Hay [From the German.]) "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... | |
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