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| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear: the rime has been, 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.... | |
| Richard Sicklemore - Fiction - 2005 - 140 pages
...gen'ral 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 die, And there an end; but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.... | |
| Dana Cairns Watson - Conversation in literature - 2005 - 276 pages
...fate; or the words that Macbeth uses to address the ghost of Banquo (called a "shadow" [3.4.107]): "The time has been /That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / Stein's allusion, if we can call it that, to Shakespeare's equivocating witches reminds me of the... | |
| 2005 - 68 pages
...weal: Ay, and since too, murders have been performed To terrible for the ear. The time has been, 80 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 ...... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 260 pages
...weal.76 Ay, and since too, murders have been performed 80 Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there77 an end, but now they78 rise again, 68 passed down /learned from 69 grandmother 70 chair 71... | |
| Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2006 - 220 pages
...desirability and impossibility of conclusion is a regular concern of the characters, both in large matters ("The time has been / That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end" — [3.4.77-9]) and in such smaller ones as Macbeth's inability to achieve the temporary finality of... | |
| Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 292 pages
...is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan. 2. 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. 3.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - History - 2005 - 978 pages
...candidates stood while addressing the electors. 27.25-26. when the brains are out, an absurdity will die: "The time has been, / That when the brains were out, the man would die" (Macbeth 3.4.78). In his account of his brief visit to Bruges in early August 1842, just before the... | |
| James R. Hartman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 518 pages
...before now, I' th' olden time, 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 head And push us from our stools. This... | |
| Luigi Murolo - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 177 pages
...altra grande figura di doppio della tradizione inglese: Macbeth. Infatti, coś come questo pronuncia «Time has been, That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end»188, Markheim pensa «"Time was that when the brains were out" he thought, and the firts word... | |
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