 | Scotland - 1838 - 894 pages
...nothing of it. Living or dead, Tomkins seemed destined to be a mystery. We muttered with Macbeth : — " The times have been, That when the brains were out...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools." Taking courage at last, however, from despair, we re-opened the dreaded document, and found, to our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 pages
...time, Ere human statute purged the general 2 weal; Ay, and since, too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The times have been, That,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Your noble friends do lack you. Lady M. My worthy lord, Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...purged the general2 weal ; Ay, and since, too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the car. The times have been, That, when the brains were out,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget. — Do not muse at me, my... | |
 | 1839 - 694 pages
...merely despicable —it is ridiculous. Never was the hacknied quotation more laughably realized — " The times have been That, when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools." It may be thought, indeed, that the brains of this ministry were out Ion? ago ; but here the breath... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...his suffering. <vU^<r\ xv 1 '*.*. / ' ' i - " 1^ ,1'*1 1 ( ( '>' l" * '' '' . I .,^,yU-.ir^<i! -^77^ Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. L. Macb. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget. — Do not muse 1 at me,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1842 - 588 pages
...I. F parted ; but their bodies, like empty forms, still kept their places : to them he might say — the times have been That, when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns. And push us from our stools ; threatening the house with fifty deaths or dissolutions. The chairman having put the question, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...! Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget. — Do not muse at me, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...! Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now, T th' olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget. — Do not muse at me, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 pages
...Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now , i' th' olden time , Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay , and since too , murders have been perform'd Too...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord , Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget. — Do not muse at me ,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That,...stools : this is more strange Than such a murder is. Ladg M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. Macb. I do forget : — Do not muse at me,... | |
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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. 
