| Domestic, literary and village sketches - 1823 - 168 หน้า
...these add, Pilkington's Dictionary, the Works of Richardson, Barry, Reynolds, Opie, Fuseli. (5) Let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of Kings !* In the great repository of the illustrious deceased in England, Westminster Abbey, ta race of monarchs... | |
| 1851 - 1220 หน้า
...his enthusiastic tone of voice, with a quotation from Shakspcare : " Hunt ! 1 For Heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings I' " " The old lady," says Hunt, " looked on the coat-h floor as if expecting to see us take seats... | |
| 1859 - 386 หน้า
...Methinks, I could be very melancholy to-day. 1 have a marvellous disposition to cry. I prythee, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings ! I shall read Blair's Grave, or Young's Night Thoughts, or Drelincourt on Death, or Hervey's Meditations... | |
| 1880 - 578 หน้า
...murder, till the history of the House of Stuart may almost be summed up by the lines : — ' Come, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings.' Even the Kings who most bravely strove against violence and injustice were, with the one noble exception... | |
| 1880 - 578 หน้า
...murder, till the history of the House of Stuart may almost be summed up by the lines : — ' Come, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings.' Even the Kings who most bravely strove against violence and injustice were, with the one noble exception... | |
| London univ, exam. papers - 1881 - 184 หน้า
...V. was to make France, for a time, !i province of England." (1872). 192. •" For heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of Kings, — How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Somfi haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1893 - 238 หน้า
...overwhelmed him, and he broke forth into lamentations. " For heaven's sake," said he, in his despair, " let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings, for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king death keeps his court, and there... | |
| Harrison Smith Morris - 1895 - 460 หน้า
...overwhelmed him, and he broke forth into lamentations. " For heaven's sake," said he, in his despair, "let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings, for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king death keeps his court, and there... | |
| William Dean Howells - 1903 - 386 หน้า
..."Yes," Langbrith said, doubling his lankness down before the fire. He went on: "' For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings.'' Jessamy had not minded the hoyden prank in which he took her at her word, but the name he seemed to... | |
| Bettina Von Hutten - 1905 - 424 หน้า
...grown woman, and she recognised, while she could not explain, the difference. " For God's sake ! let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings." He stared, and she burst out laughing. "You are a badly educated person, Mr. Charnley Burke, of our... | |
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