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" Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time, Ere human statute purged 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:... "
The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy ... - Page 373
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - 1992 - 68 pages
...for shame! Macbeth. The times has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there a end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady Macbeth. My worthy Lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macbeth. I do forget . . .. (He speaks to...
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Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare: The Practice of Theory

Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...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...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....
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The Pamphleteer

Jan Glete - 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...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...
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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays

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...
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Psychopathologische Phänomene im Kunstspiegel der Literatur des Realismus ...

Ulla Heine - 1996 - 220 pages
...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...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...
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Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Essays

Whittaker Chambers - 1996 - 408 pages
...Stanislav 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,...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 I had known in 1937 and...
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900

Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - 1998 - 952 pages
...her funeral 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,...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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Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays

Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pages
...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...an end; but now they rise again With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.77-81) Suppressions of the body natural...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...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...they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.22 HECATE But why stands Macbeth thus amazedly?23 MACBETH Let this pernicious hour Stand aye...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...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...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...
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