 Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the 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 time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...  The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ... - Page 4031896 - 1178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Hopkins Morison - 1861 - 550 pages
...terrified Macbeth at the appearance of Banquo whom he had murdered : — the words, — " The times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools." The great misdeeds and consequent misfortunes of Herod's life, his repudiating of his wife, the daughter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 544 pages
...gentle weal ;* Ay, and since too, murders have been peri'orm'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Tour noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget :— Do not muse at me, my... | |
 | 1858 - 656 pages
...gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd, Too terrible for the ear : the times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is." Again roused from reverie by his wife, he excuses his behaviour by the same reference to a customary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1967 - 212 pages
...the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The times has been That, when the brains were out, the man would...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY My worthy lord, Your noble friends do kck you. MACBETH I do forget. Do not muse at me, my most... | |
 | 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,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth My worthy lord, 85 Your noble friends do lack you. Macbeth I do forget. Do not muse at... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...olden time, Ere humane statute purg'd the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, That,...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.... | |
 | Jan Glete - 1994 - 536 pages
...legally dead ; as unsubstantial, almost ideal beings ; the mere ghosts of episcopacy. The times have been That when the brains were out the man would die...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... | |
 | Ulla Heine - 1996 - 220 pages
...anstimmen, von seinen Leiden erzählen, um das Schicksal abzuwenden, das ihm [...] zugetragen wird."136 Die "The time has been, that, when the brains were out,...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... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 288 pages
...Banquo. People are very hard to kill in Shakespeare. Well might Macbeth long for the good old days when the brains were out the man would die, And there...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.79-82) Caesar, Hamlet's father, Banquo— all return from the dead to haunt the living. The point... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - 1998 - 952 pages
...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, the man would...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... | |
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