 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 Percy Anecdotes ... - Page 2631839Full view - About this book
 | Ulla Heine - Mental illness in literature - 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, the man would die, and there an end; but now, they rise again, with twenty mortal murders on their crowns, and push us trom our stools.... | |
 | Whittaker Chambers - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 408 pages
...Kossior, Antonov-Avseenko — I heard my mind saying to itself in these words from Macbeth, The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again. . . . I took up Victor Serge and lived back, line by line, over the struggle... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 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 an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.79-82)... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - Drama - 1998 - 232 pages
...dispatched; Banquo, like Caesar, returns, and Macbeth discovers the limits of physical suppression: 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. (3.4.77-81)... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 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 die, And there an end: but now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.' I... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...purged the 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.... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...statute purged the 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 die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.22 HECATE But why stands Macbeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...inasmuch as Macbeth is referring to two former periods, — before human laws existed, and since then. That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, 80 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...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, 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...sent to 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 die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this... | |
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