 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pages
...war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murdered : For within the hollow crown That rounds...this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable,—and, humoured thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Ethics - 1865 - 318 pages
...ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings ; How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed...little scene To monarchize, be feared, and kill with look*, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass... | |
 | Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 450 pages
...of soul King Richard II. utters in the following passage at once a sarcasm and a confession: — " For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...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... | |
 | Robert Hayden - Literary Collections - 1984 - 217 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed: Some poison'd by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. . . . He moves- away from the mirror, the Tragedian Image receding as the Comedian comes downstage.... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...sixteenth-century shape, hiding in disguise until the moment for the Summons arrives: K. Rich: . . . For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchiie, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh... | |
 | Charles Martindale - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 340 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murthered for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (Ill ii 144-5, I5I-63) It is a tremendous speech, richly redolent of the dark, doom-laden world of... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murther'd. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a little breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - History - 1993 - 486 pages
...India— Pudukkottai (Princely State) I. Title. DS485.P12D57 1993 954'.82— dc20 93-31920 CIP For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and, humoured thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...scene, Richard reduces his entire reign to a doomed pageant staged within the mental space of the crown: Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...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 Bores... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...2 And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life 1 60 1 5 3-4 that small model of the harren earth \ Which serves as paste and cover to our hones. Probably... | |
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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... 
