 The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 321by William Shakespeare - 1813 - 913 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ulla Heine - Mental illness in literature - 1996 - 220 pages
...Leiden erzählen, um das Schicksal abzuwenden, das ihm [...] zugetragen wird."136 Die "The time has been, that, when the brains were out, the man would...twenty mortal murders on their crowns, and push us trom our stools. This is more strange than such a murder is." (III, 4) Von seinem Lehr-Stuhl und der... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...her funeral dirge, she will rise before their scared visages, and make them cry out with Macbeth — 'The times have been That when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.' I am aware, sir, that many of the suggestions and arguments that have been used this evening, have... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.22 HECATE But why stands Macbeth thus amazedly?23 MACBETH Let this pernicious hour Stand aye... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Macbeth — Macbeth IIIM The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. Macbeth — Macbeth III.iv It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - Drama - 2003 - 156 pages
...gentle weal; 75 Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That when the brains were out the man would die,...again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 80 And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY MACBETH My worthy... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...the ghost of Banquo - that he is caught off guard, unsuspecting, uncertain, iiiiknowing: The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. (3.4.77-82) But even here he attempts to bring matters under the control of his knowing and those of... | |
 | Ernest Emenyo̲nu, Iniobong I. Uko - Africa - 2004 - 488 pages
...in, iv, 77 ff where, in his distress over the appearance of Banquo's ghost Macbeth says: The time has been that when the brains were out the man would die,...murders on their crowns and push us from our stools. In both Shakespeare and Achebe resurrection is not treated in terms of orthodoxy, that is, the resurrection... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - History - 2004 - 198 pages
...enough then the natural and supernatural world will not conspire against its concealment: The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (Macbeth 3.4.77-81) Later Macbeth will curse the witches: "Infected be the air whereon they ride, /... | |
 | Richard Sicklemore - Fiction - 2005 - 140 pages
...olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gen'ral weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been, That,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. SHAKESPEARE. SEVERAL weeks elapsed, during which time every possible research was made to discover... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...itself, Macbeth protests against it because it is unnatural, contrary to the law of order. The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. (Ill, iv, 78-83) "Strange" means "unnatural".) Having committed unnatural deeds in order to gain and... | |
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