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 him with self and vain conceit As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and, humour'd... Dictionary of Quotations (English) - Seite 330von Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 510 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 Seiten
...variety of action.* And Shakespeare personifies death and its operations in a manner singularly fanciful: -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... | |
| 1833 - 1006 Seiten
...the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a King. _^—_ — — And there the antic sit», 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 Mm with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 Seiten
...ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murdcr'd :— for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...his pomp ! Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with loots Infusing him with self and vain conceit — As if this flesh,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 Seiten
...ghosts they dispossess'd ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : — for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...his pomp ! Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks Infusing him with self and vaiu conceit — As if this flesh,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 Seiten
...hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps deatli his court: and there the antic 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 him with self and vain conceit — As if this... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 Seiten
...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...a breath, a little scene To monarchise, be fear'd, ;md kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, AS if his flesh, which walls about our... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 Seiten
...ghosts they have depos'd;1 Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd : — For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, — ' And that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 612 Seiten
...made sport by mocking the graver personages. JOHNSON. In King Richard II. we have the same image : " - within the hollow crown " That rounds the mortal temples...sits " Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." STEEVENS. It is not improbable that Shakspeare borrowed this idea from one of the cuts to that most... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 Seiten
...ghosts they have depos'd1 ; Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd :—For within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples...king, Keeps death his court: and there the antick sits 2 , Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, sepulchral... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 648 Seiten
...made sport by mocking the graver personages. JOHNSON. In King Richard II. we have the same image : " within the hollow crown " That rounds the mortal temples...of a king " Keeps death his court : and there the anticlc sits " Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp." STEEVENS. It is not improbable that Shakspeare... | |
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