 | Carlos M. N. Eire - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 592 pages
...for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and iherc the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at...Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about... | |
 | Elke Gilson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 356 pages
...the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings [...] 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 grtnning at his pomp. Allowing him a breath. a little scene • To monarchise. be feared and kill with... | |
 | Jan Kott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 282 pages
...quali pestilenze, e quali portenti, quale tenzone, quale infuriar del mare e sussultar della terra, at his pomp; / Allowing him a breath, a little scene, / To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks; / . . . / and humour'd thus, / Comes at the last, and with a little pin... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kilTd; All murder'd: — for within the hollow crown That rounds send to France, To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings, ¡muck sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 600 pages
...vision of the 'antic' Death humouring the wearer of 'the hollow crown', Infusing him with self and cain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable (fa, 3.2.166-8) As Kerl noted (p.13), there Shakespeare separates the compound term 'self from the... | |
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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... 
