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" Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren... "
Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Page 257
by Laconics - 1829
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 pages
...directions in Richard's text are also clear character indications. — of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of Kings. A little later...
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Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight

Thomas B. Jabine, Richard Pierre Claude - 1992 - 488 pages
...from 1 970 to 1984 Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet — of comfort, no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs: Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Shakespeare, King Richard II This report helps fulfill an elementary step in any homicide investigation:...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...father with his power?" (Ill, 2, 143), he answers: No matter where—of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. (IIl, 2, 144-47) Such utterances show that the king and the person are no longer identical, for the...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...is the Duke, my father, with his power? KING RICHARD No matter where. Of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...Let's choose executors and talk of wills And yet not so; for what can we bequeath 1 5o Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and...
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Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 pages
...familiarity with Shakespeare's historical tragedies. Well might he recite the lament of Richard II: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.45 In the case...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. 89 Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...Let's choose executors and talk of wills. And yet not so - for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all...
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Political and Social Essays

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 pages
...frightful steep, sit dallying with our doubts—then comes the end: Of comfort no man speak. We'll talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. We'll choose executors and talk of wills. And yet, not so—for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...the duke my father with his power? KING RICHARD. No matter where; — of comfort no man speak: Let's they did make no noise, — in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and...
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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin de Siecle

Lewis H. Lapham - 1995 - 396 pages
...make handsome and well-engineered lies. March 1992 MELANCHOLY KINGS Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust...earth. Let's choose executors, and talk of wills. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings! — RICHARD II...
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The Hoosac Valley: Its Legends and Its History

Grace Greylock Niles - 1997 - 620 pages
...favorite and oft-quoted lines from a scene of Richard II., were chiselled upon his tombstone: Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and Epitaphs; Make dust...rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. CHAPTER XI OLD HOOSAC FALLS AND PETERSBURGH NEIGHBORHOOD I759-I8I5 The thousand changes that thicken...
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