 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1823 - 452 pages
...souls of all that I had murder'd Came to my tent, and every one did threat Shakspearc. Richard III. 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. Macbeth. The Father... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...Gait thinks differently, and, we have no doubt, is already deep in composition. — — " The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ;" but now, it seems, authors neither live nor write the less on that account. If the tranquillity of the author's... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 536 pages
...reception given to those of the Peninsula. This was extremely striking to bye-standers," &c. - Time was, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end — " But not so is it with time present, or we should not have a scribbler foolishly telling us, or endeavouring... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...olden time, Ere human statute purg'd thegentlc weal ; Ay, and since too, murdeis have becnperform'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That,...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. This is more strange,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 486 pages
...olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear ; the times have been, That...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 ! This is more... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the times have been, That...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: This is more strange... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...in folly? Macbeth. If I stand here, I saw him. Lady Macbeth. Fie, for shame! Macbeth. The times has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there a end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...unholy resurrection, is not at all unusual. Macbeth's expostulation that 'the time has been,/That, when the brains were out, the man would die, /And there an end; but now, they rise again' (III.iv.77-9), marks this sense of the denaturing of time, and also evokes, by the way,... | |
 | Normand Berlin - American drama - 1994 - 286 pages
...Because of what he sees, because of what his "eyes" tell him, he can acknowledge that "the time has been, / That when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end" (3.4.77-79). But this is not that time. He complains that there's no use burying the dead these days... | |
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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. 
