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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. "
The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes - Page 509
by William Shakespeare - 1745
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The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With Life

George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...had murder'd Came to my tent, and every one did threat SHAKSPEARE. Richard III, The time hath been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end : but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murdera on their crowns, And push us from our stoois. PETER GRIMES....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been periorm'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, \\ith twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools : This is more...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...reading ungentle with Seymour or general with Capel. 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 is more...
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The Twelve Nights

Karl von Baron Miltie - 1831 - 446 pages
...HALF-HANGED ITALIAN; THE IMPALED TURK; THE HALF-DROWNDED ENGLISHMAN. TALES OF THE DEAD. " 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." MACBETH. THAT predilection for a rambling...
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Shogun Macbeth

John R. Briggs - 1988 - 82 pages
...now, 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 and push us from our table: this is more strange than such a murder is. (She quiets him...
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Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare: The Practice of Theory

Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...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. This is more...
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The Culture of Violence: Essays on Tragedy and History

Francis Barker - 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 the way,...
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The Pamphleteer

Jan Glete - 1994 - 536 pages
...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 I. p....
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre

Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pages
...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. The...
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Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Essays

Whittaker Chambers - 1996 - 408 pages
...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 I had known...
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