 | George Batchelor - 1916 - 92 pages
...attended the meetings of the Association until I heard John Weiss repeat with applause the words of Macbeth, — "the times have been, That, when the...brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they make of him a Unitarian minister." After some years of activity the ministers who had... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 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, 80 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools... | |
 | American fiction - 1916 - 292 pages
...Shakespeare's " Macbeth," Act III, scene iv, lines 78-79. In full this most apposite reference runs : " 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... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | 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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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... 
