 | 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...of a 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 : find there the antick sits " Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." STEBVBNS. It is not improbable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...ghosts they have depos'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 antic sits,T Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...the ghosts they have depos'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'cl; All murder'd: — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...temples of a king, Keeps death his court: and there the an tick sits, 8 Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...depos'd some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping All murder'd :— For within the hollow crowa, 1 bat that ever 1 beard discourse, my lord. The. Pyramus draws near the wall: silenc sib, Scolhng his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene Io monarchize,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...hollow crown, That round the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his Court, and their the Antick sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...conceit, As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Where brass impregnable : and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin, Bores through... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; AH morderM : — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal...temples of a king, Keeps death his court : and there the amiento, Scofling his state, and grinning at hie pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...the ghosts they have depos'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 antick sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To... | |
 | Lamin Sanneh - 2009 - 320 pages
...daughter; he no want to be king."11 It requires little imagination to appreciate the dangers lurking "within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king," to understand chiefs' fearing a more powerful rival and the constant threat of being hustled into 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... 
