 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 422 pages
...to mean the fools by profession, though it is commonly explained to mean simply antique. Of. — ' For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.' SHAKSPEARE, Richard II., III. ii. 160. ' Thou antic Death, which laugh'st us here to scorn.' Id. I... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed ; Some poisoned by their wives; some sleeping killed; All murdered : Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchi/e, be feared and kill with looks. Infusing him with... | |
 | Sanders - 1980 - 404 pages
...sense of the world in which he acts, it is important to be clear what it is that is being offered us. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1981 - 292 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, 160 All murdered. For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...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... | |
 | Robert Hayden - 1984 - 217 pages
...by 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...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. . . . He moves- away from the mirror, the Tragedian Image receding as the Comedian comes downstage.... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...sixteenth-century shape, hiding in disguise until the moment for the Summons arrives: K. Rich: . . . For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchiie, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murthered for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. (Ill ii 144-5, I5I-63) It is a tremendous speech, richly redolent of the dark, doom-laden world of... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...some have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murther'd....sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a little breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks, Infusing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; U . Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - 1993 - 486 pages
...by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered - for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal...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... | |
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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... 
