 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...by the ghosts they have depos'd : Some poison' d by their wives ; some sleeping All murder'd : — For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court : and t nere the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; 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 hjs state, and grinning at his pomp! Allowing him a breath, a little scene To... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...variety of action.* And Shakespeare personifies death and its operations in a manner singularly fanciful: -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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...the ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murdcr'd :— for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : — for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : — for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps deatli his court: and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ! Allowing... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...the ghosts they have depos'd;1 Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd : — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...by the ghosts they have depos'd1 ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd :—For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...king, Keeps death his court: and there the antick sits 2 , Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, sepulchral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 612 pages
...made sport by mocking the graver personages. JOHNSON. In King Richard II. we have the same image : " - within the hollow crown " That rounds the mortal temples...king " Keeps death his court : and there the antick sits " Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." STEEVENS. It is not improbable that Shakspeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 648 pages
...made sport by mocking the graver personages. JOHNSON. In King Richard II. we have the same image : " within the hollow crown " That rounds the mortal temples...of a king " Keeps death his court : and there the anticlc sits " Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." STEEVENS. It is not improbable that Shakspeare... | |
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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... 
