 | James Fletcher - 1835 - 358 trang
...of both him and Michael. This was really a practical method of teaching new monarchs, that " witnin the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court." The ceremony* is then concluded with a singular form. Every new king is obliged to appear... | |
 | Michael Burlingame - 1997 - 418 trang
...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... | |
 | Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - 1997 - 622 trang
...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,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 trang
...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. 10451 Richard II The purple testament of bleeding war. 10452 Richard II What must the king... | |
 | Robert Davidson - 1998 - 500 trang
...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,... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - 1998 - 370 trang
...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,... | |
 | Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 trang
...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... | |
 | Karl Siegfried Guthke - 1999 - 316 trang
...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,... | |
 | Lamin Sanneh - 2009 - 320 trang
...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 trang
...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... | |
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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... 
