 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...statute purg'd the 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 die, And there an end: but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: This... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...instructions to the other actors, that Shuter exclaimed, " the case was very hard, for the time has been, that when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end." Macklin over-hearing him, good naturedly replied, " Ah, Ned ! and the time was, that when liquor was... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...h«ad cut off, be did not care for tliat He took it up and carried it two railes without hit hau " The times have been that when the brains were out the man would die;" they were "the timet !" Yet, even in those times, except " the Anthrophagi, and men whose heads do... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...hii head cut off, he did not car« for that Ue took it up and carried it two nut» witho-it his hat " The times have been that when the brains were out the man would die;" they were "the t ¡met !" Yet, even in those times, except " the Anthrophagi, and men whose heads do... | |
 | Normand Berlin - American drama - 1994 - 286 pages
...Because of what he sees, because of what his "eyes" tell him, he can acknowledge that "the time has been, / That when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end" (3.4.77-79). But this is not that time. He complains that there's no use burying the dead these days... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...refer to Macbeth; "the written troubles of the brain" refers to Lady Macbeth, 5.3.42; "The times has been / That when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there was an end; but now they rise again" refers to Banquo's ghost, 3.4.78-81. "Brains" may represent a... | |
 | Jan Glete - Business & Economics - 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 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. ' Letter... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...must send / Those that we bury back, our monuments / Shall be the maws of kites. . . . The time has been / That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there's an end! But now they rise again. ..." (3.4.87-89 and 96-98). From the very beginning of Macbeth,... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Drama - 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.... | |
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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. 
