 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
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...see Banquo's, which makes him remark so bitterly concerning the discontinuities he once believed in: The time has been That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there's an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns And push us from... | |
 | Derek Cohen - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 220 pages
...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. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This... | |
 | Linda Zimmermann - Fiction - 2003 - 244 pages
...reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. ISBN: 0-9712326-3-6 The time has been That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again. . . Shakespeare, Macbeth, III, 4 Chapter 1 It was a terrifying sight. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - Drama - 2003 - 156 pages
...purged the 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, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 80 And push us from our stools.... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - History - 2004 - 314 pages
...The phrase "the time has been" echoes Macbeth 's horror at the reappearance of Banquo at the feast: "The time has been / That when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end" (3.4.77-79). But times are not what they were, because the present is always haunted by the past. Macbeth... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...appearance of 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 die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - History - 2004 - 198 pages
...unnatural 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 die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (Macbeth... | |
 | Ernest Emenyo̲nu, Iniobong I. Uko - Africa - 2004 - 488 pages
...Shakespeare's Macbeth 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, and there an end; but now they rise again, with twenty mortal murders on their crowns and push us from our stools. In... | |
 | Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem, A. J. Hoenselaars - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 296 pages
...expression to evoke the ancient barbarous age which preceded "the gentle weal," the bond of civilisation: "The time has been / That, when the brains were out, the man would die..." (3.4.77-78). We are thus authorized to infer that the time of his life Macbeth is referring to here... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...apparition 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 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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