 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pages
...souls of all that I had murder'd Came to my tent, and every one did threat Shakspeare. Uirlmnl JU.1. The times have been, That when the brains were out,...the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rue again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stooU. Mocbetk. The Father... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...the gentle weal ; ' [time, Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That, when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 236 pages
...weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, 80 That, when the brains were out, the man would die,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth My worthy lord, 85 Your noble friends do lack... | |
 | John R. Briggs - 1988 - 82 pages
...hath been shed before now, ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd too terrible for the ear: the times have been, that, when the brains were out,...would die, and there an end; but now they rise again and push us from our table: this is more strange than such a murder is. (She quiets him and hides their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...performed Too terrible for the ear. The times has been, That when the brains were out the man would die, 80 And there an end; but now they rise again With twenty...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY MACBETH My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 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...end; but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murther is.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - 1992 - 68 pages
...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. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth. My worthy Lord, Your noble friends do lack... | |
 | Francis Barker - 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, the failure... | |
 | Jan Glete - 1994 - 536 pages
...looked on them as legally dead ; as unsubstantial, almost ideal beings ; the mere ghosts of episcopacy. The times have been That when the brains were out...murders on their crowns, And push US from our stools. ' Letter I. p. 185. a Ibid. [i. 155. 496 T. Gisborne's Letter to the [34 But surely, Sir, it ill became... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 290 pages
...inside-out is not a pretty sight. The image appears again when Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost: "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). Inversion is inextricable in this play from paradox and contradiction. The musical cadences... | |
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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. 
