 Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache : they are not carved with their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 33edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | English drama - 1910 - 500 pages
...hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the tooth-ache. They are not carved with their eyes fix'd upon the stars, but as their minds were wholly bent...world, the selfsame way they seem to turn their faces. DUCH. Let me know fully therefore the effect Of this thy dismal preparation, This talk fit for a charnel.... | |
 | Joseph Crouch - Art and religion - 1910 - 448 pages
...already prevalent. " Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray to Heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache." Churchmen of post-Restoration times were not only wanting in taste, but were guilty of the grossest... | |
 | John Webster - English drama - 1912 - 494 pages
...? Do we affect fashion in the grave ? Bos. Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs Do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray Up to Heaven...world, The selfsame way they seem to turn their faces. 160 Duck. Let me know fully, therefore, the effect Of this thy dismal preparation, This talk, fit for... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - English drama - 1916 - 860 pages
...deathbed? Do we affect fashion in the grave? Bos. Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven;...the tooth-ache. They are not carved with their eyes fix'd upon the stars, but as their minds were wholly bent upon the world, the self-same way they seem... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - English drama - 1916 - 860 pages
...deathbed ? Do we affect fashion in the grave? Bos. Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not sir. Ver. O Joanna, I came to meet thee. Your devotion's ended? Beat. For this time, sir. — (Aside.) I diod of the tooth-ache. They are not carved with their eyes fix'd upon the stars, but as their minds... | |
 | Joseph Ernest Morris - North Riding of Yorkshire (England) - 1920 - 516 pages
...then fashionable, that evoked the sarcasm of Webster (1640): "Princes' images on their tombs do not lie as they were wont seeming to pray up to heaven, but with their hands under their cheekes (as if they died of the toothache) " ("Duchess of Maln," IV. 2 ). At the bottom of the monument... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English drama - 1926 - 840 pages
...tombs 1 Receptacle of that which dead becomes mummy, a drug of the time. = Curdled Do not lie, ILS they were wont, seeming to pray Up to heaven; but...carved With their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as «o Their minds were wholly bent upon the world, The selfsame way they seem to turn their faces. Duck.... | |
 | John Webster - 1927 - 398 pages
...death-bed? Do we affect fashion in the grave? Bos. Most ambitiously: Princes images on their tombes Do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray Up to heaven: but with their hands under their cheekes, (As if they died of the tooth-ache) — they are not carved With their eies fix'd upon the... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Literary Collections - 1983 - 406 pages
...we affect fashion in the grave? 160 BOSOLA. Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs Do not lie as they were wont, seeming to pray Up to heaven:...cheeks, As if they died of the tooth-ache; they are not carv'd With their eyes fix'd upon the stars, but as 16s 149-50 These lines occur also in The White... | |
 | C. John Sommerville - History - 1992 - 238 pages
...This was expressed at the time in Webster's The Duchess ofMalfi: Princes' images on their tombs Do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray Up to heaven,...world, The self-same way they seem to turn their faces. It fits the stereotype of Renaissance worldliness. (IV, ii, 156-162) As for the tombs of England's... | |
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