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" Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human 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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 167
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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The Unholy Three

Tod Robbins - Detective and mystery stories - 1917 - 322 pages
...SERENA ROBBINS :o 'M X TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY if 9221.4 ASTOR. LENOX AND rlLDEN FOUNDATION' R "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."...
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Booth and the Spirit of Lincoln: A Story of a Living Dead Man

Bernie Babcock - 1925 - 328 pages
...the place his heart was thumping. "Stay illusion! If thou hast any sound or use of voice speak to me. The times have been that when the brains were out the man would die and there an end. But now they arise again — or seem to. A time before I saw — or thought I saw what now I see. Tell...
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The Living Age, Volume 226

1900 - 874 pages
...he was about to murder said, "God bless us;" most curiously in his irritation at ghost-walking:— The times have been That, when 'the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they riee again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns. And push us from our stools; this...
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The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 4

Electronic journals - 1858 - 656 pages
...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...
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Shogun Macbeth

John R. Briggs - Drama - 1988 - 82 pages
...hath been shed before 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...
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The Pamphleteer

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....
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Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Essays

Whittaker Chambers - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 408 pages
...Bela Kun, 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, 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...
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900

Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...are singing 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, 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.' I...
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Edgar, Or, The Phantom of the Castle

Richard Sicklemore - Fiction - 2005 - 140 pages
...statute purg'd the 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....
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