 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings : — How some have been deposed : some slain in war, Some haunted by... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...after some fitful flashes of resolution and royal pride, he sinks into that strain of melancholy — " For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings ; — How some have been deposed, some slain in war ; Some haunted by... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings : — How some have been deposed : some slain in war, Some haunted by... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...but death, And that small model ' of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings : — How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by... | |
 | Orlando Williams Wight - 1857 - 352 pages
...who lives with them, says they intend going to Europe, to be introduced at all the European Courts. " For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the woes of kings : — How some have been depos'd, some slam in war, Some poison'd by their... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings : — How some have been deposed ; some slain in war ; Some haunted by... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 pages
...suddenly startled her out of her propriety, by exclaiming in his enthusiastic tone of voice — " Hunt ! "For Heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground , And tell sad stories <jf the death of kings." But his usual deportment was eminently serious. Flowers, or the sight... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 pages
...suddenly startled her out of her propriety, by exclaiming in his enthusiastic tone of voice — " Hunt ! " For Heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings." But his usual deportment was eminently serious. Flowers, or the sight... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...own but death, And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to ourbonea. For heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings . How some have been depos'd, some slain in war ; Some haunted by the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1860 - 510 pages
...the Second, in the commencement of which the king, in the indulgence of his misery, exclaims — " For Heaven's sake! let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings." Shelley, who had been moved into the ebullition by something objectionable... | |
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For Heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings... 
