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" 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 And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been depos'd; some slain in war... "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth - Page 138
by William Hazlitt - 1859 - 229 pages
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Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages ...

Charles Martindale - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 340 pages
...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 And tell sad stories...some 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...
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El mundo trágico de los griegos y de Shakespeare: consideraciones sobre lo ...

Ludwig Schajowicz - Drama - 1990 - 400 pages
...expresado por boca de Ricardo II, en la obra del mismo nombre; de un modo muy convincente: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...some 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 their hollow...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...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 And tell sad stories...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. For within the hollow...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, (II, i) 89 For God's P . deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...
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The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

Nicholas B. Dirks - History - 1993 - 486 pages
...India— Pudukkottai (Princely State) I. Title. DS485.P12D57 1993 954'.82— dc20 93-31920 CIP For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...2 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 And tell sad stories of the death of kings How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...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 And tell sad stories of the death of kings! How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's th; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound; he'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if her deposed; some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives;...
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The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
...from Shakespeare was Richard IPs lament, which John Hay heard him read in Springfield and Washington: For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And...stories of the death of kings: — How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poisoned by their wives,...
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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology

Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - History - 1997 - 622 pages
...procession of tortured kings passing in review before Richard's eyes is proof of that change: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings — How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...
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