 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...heads to think of One who is himself too a King, the King of Terrors. They cannot bear to think that 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. Like common men, and often still more absolutely,... | |
 | Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - History - 1997 - 622 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered — 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, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize,... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - Drama - 1998 - 370 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...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... | |
 | Robert Davidson - Religion - 1998 - 500 pages
...share a like fate. Shakespeare's words vividly underline the ultimate frailty of all human power: ... 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. (King Richard II, 3.2.160-63) The same Death... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered: 10394 The Merchant ofVenice Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long. 10395 The 10451 Richard II The purple testament of bleeding war. 10452 Richard II What must the king do now?... | |
 | Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...death of kings: • (From Act III scene iii) King. . . . Some poyson'd by their Wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murther'd: for within the hollow Crown...King, Keeps death his Court, and there the Antique sits, Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pomp! . . . Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood,... | |
 | Karl Siegfried Guthke - Art - 1999 - 316 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. 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, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...enemies to Pontius Pilate. To be king, in Richard's rhetoric, is to be marked out for sacrificial death, 'for within the hollow crown | That rounds the mortal temples of a king | Keeps death his court' (3. 2. 156-8): it is the fate, he claims, of all kings, of legitimate monarchy itself; and by that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 270 pages
...deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered. For within the hollow crown 160 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... | |
 | JaHyun Kim Haboush - History - 2001 - 424 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; 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; . . . — Shakespeare, Richard II THE GREAT... | |
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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... 
