 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death and death will have his day. King Richard— Richard II IILii For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell...Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd; Some poisoned by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murdered: for within the hollow crown That rounds... | |
 | Matt Braun - 2002 - 294 pages
...otherwise, won't I?" "What are you talking about?" "Lulu, I mean to put an end to it — permanently!" * * * For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell...slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; All murder' d: for within the hollow... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pages
...with Shakespeare at your side. So let's begin, or, as Shakespeare says in his play King Richard II: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell...slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murthered — for within the hollow... | |
 | Matthew Pinsker - 2003 - 274 pages
...claimed he had heard Lincoln recite "at Springfield, at the White House, and at the Soldiers' Home." For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell...slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping 1; ill J All murthered. . . .20 Naturally, many... | |
 | Chris Given-Wilson - 2004 - 342 pages
...64-65. There is an echo of this passage in Shakespeare's Richard II (Act 3, Scene 2, lines 155-60): 'For God's sake let us sit upon the ground/ And tell...by their wives, some sleeping kill'd,/ All murder'd . . .' It is most unlikely, however, that Shakespeare could have known Usk's chronicle. 75. Scrope... | |
 | J. C. Morris - 2005 - 508 pages
...repondered the cruelty of life, the inhumanity of mankind. He recited Shakespeare and the Bible aloud. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell...depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping killed." From Mark, 7:2 1 "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,... | |
 | Sara Douglass - 2007 - 628 pages
...the man's heart hid. So came the Demon-King to reign over England. EPILOGUE — PONTEFRACT CASTLE — For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell...slain in war. Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos 'd, Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleeping kill 'd, All murder' d— for within the hollow... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 280 pages
...upon the proud and sinful. It was natural for Shakespeare to explore the possibilities for tragedy of sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been...by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murder'd. (Richard II, III.ii.156-60) In writing his early plays he had the impact of Marlowe to absorb, who... | |
 | Clement Healy - 2006 - 134 pages
...can call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones, For God's sake let us sit upon the ground,...Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd; Some poisoned by their wives; some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd; — for within the hollow crown That rounds... | |
 | Chris Coculuzzi, Matt Toner - 2005 - 298 pages
...pantomime the murders as RICHARD calls them into being. HOLINSHED takes a seat at the Commentators ' desk. How some have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some...kill'd, All murder'd. For within the hollow Crown Keeps Death his Court, and there the Antic sits, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, Coming at... | |
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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How 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... 
