 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 380 pages
...history of English monarchs has proved how little virtue there is in the ampulla, and that often " Within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." The crowns and the principal articles of the regalia are exhibited to visitors in the same manner as... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Within the hollow crown, That round the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his Court, and their the Antick sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Franck Lessay - 1999 - 204 pages
...la souveraineté des ombres, celle des spectres et de la mort, "for within the hollow crown / Thaï rounds the mortal temples of a king / Keeps death his court, and there the antic sits" (Richard II, m.2.160-162). Car, en dernière analyse, ce que nous disent ces rois de carnaval... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 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 - 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... | |
 | Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - 2000 - 148 pages
...the sad stories and draws a contemptus mundi moral through the image of 'antic Death' keeping court within 'the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king' (i60-1). His spirits rise briefly when he is chided by Richmond, but when he learns of the desertion... | |
 | Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 68 pages
...by 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...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 about... | |
 | Beatrice K. Otto - 2001 - 444 pages
...aspect of death more eloquently expressed than in Shakespeare's history of King Richardll, (1597): . . . 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. (3. 2.160- 63) m A fool could also be anyone... | |
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To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and humour'd thus Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell... 
