| Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 pàgines
...are made of; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep ! " Here is a moral for kings : — " For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...his pomp ; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarehize, be feared, and kill with looks, — Infusing him with vain and self conceit, — As if... | |
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 506 pàgines
...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...life, Were brass impregnable ; and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell, king ! Cover... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pàgines
...crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scomng his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him...walls about our life, Were brass impregnable; and humor'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle-walls, and farewell... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pàgines
...set the table on a roar ? not one now to mock your own grinning f quite chopfallen! " And again; " within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples...sits Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp." And, by Byron; "Death laughs! go, ponder o'er the skeleton, With which men image out the unknown thing!... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pàgines
...ghosts they have depos'd ; Some poison'd bv their wives, some sleeping kili'd , All murder'd : — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...fear'd. and kill with looks ; Infusing him with self and rain conceit. — An if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable j and, humour'd... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 574 pàgines
...ghosts they have deposed ; Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed ; All murdered. — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks ; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, — As if this flesh, which... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pàgines
...ghosts they have deposed ; Some poisoned by their wives ; some sleeping killed ', All murdered. For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks ; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh, which walls... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pàgines
...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...walls about our life, Were brass impregnable; and humor'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell... | |
| 1849 - 652 pàgines
...scepter'd isle. This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars," &c. &c. and that fine image : — " For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." Shakspeare loses no opportunity of expressing his perfect contempt of mob popularity. Richard's description... | |
| Vincent Pike - 1849 - 126 pàgines
...blood; and as I look'd, The throne on which he sat resolved itself Into a mass of dry and dusty bones, * Within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp. King Richard II, Which crumbled underneath him, till he fell With hideous crash, never to rise again.... | |
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