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... Examination Christmas,1875 - Page 43by Education Department,London - 1876Full view - About this book
| Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...Act III scene iii) King. . . . Some poyson'd by their Wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murther'd: for within the hollow Crown That rounds the mortal Temples of a 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... | |
| Franck Lessay - English drama - 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 dans... | |
| Lamin Sanneh - History - 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... | |
| 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...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him... | |
| Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...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... | |
| Paul Budra, Paul Vincent Budra - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
| JaHyun Kim Haboush - History - 2001 - 424 pages
...ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; . . . — Shakespeare, Richard II THE GREAT KING OF THE RICE CHEST Sado's regency ended in a sealed... | |
| Beatrice K. Otto - History - 2001 - 444 pages
...death more eloquently expressed than in Shakespeare's history of King Richardll, (1597): . . . for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (3. 2.160- 63) m A fool could also be anyone who did not conform to a particular set of norms — a... | |
| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, / All murthered-for within the hollow crown /That rounds the mortal temples...sits, / Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, / Allowing him a breath, a little scene, /To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; / Infusing... | |
| Lynn Redgrave, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 68 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... | |
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