 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...slain in war, Some haunted by the ghost they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: — For within the hollow crown,...temples of a king, Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered: 10394 The Merchant ofVenice Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long. 10395 The 10451 Richard II The purple testament of bleeding war. 10452 Richard II What must the king do now?... | |
 | Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...(From Act III scene iii) King. . . . Some poyson'd by their Wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murther'd: for within the hollow Crown That rounds the mortal...Temples of a King, Keeps death his Court, and there the Antique sits, Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pomp! . . . Cover your heads and mock not flesh... | |
 | Karl Siegfried Guthke - Art - 1999 - 316 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To... | |
 | Franck Lessay - English drama - 1999 - 204 pages
...la souveraineté des ombres, celle des spectres et de la mort, "for within the hollow crown / Thaï rounds the mortal temples of a king / Keeps death his court, and there the antic sits" (Richard II, m.2.160-162). Car, en dernière analyse, ce que nous disent ces rois de carnaval... | |
 | William R. Everdell - History - 2000 - 426 pages
...in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown...the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court 2 The worst Stuart misreading of all, however, was one which modern historians still make sometimes.... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...enemies to Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy itself; and by that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 270 pages
...deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown 160 That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To... | |
 | Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 68 pages
...slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown...a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize,... | |
 | Beatrice K. Otto - History - 2001 - 444 pages
...aspect of death more eloquently expressed than in Shakespeare's history of King Richardll, (1597): . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (3. 2.160- 63) m A fool could also be anyone... | |
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All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp... 
