 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 time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...  The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ... - Side 4031896 - 1178 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 sider
...olden time Ere human statute purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been, That,...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 sider
...time, / Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal; / Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd /Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, /That,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 sider
...sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Macbeth — Macbeth IIIM The time has been, That, when the brains were out,...stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. Macbeth — Macbeth III.iv It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 sider
...olden time, Ere humane statute purg'd the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That,...an 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 sider
...time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal; 75 Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That when...again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 80 And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY MACBETH My worthy... | |
 | Derek Cohen - 2003 - 220 sider
...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 time has been That when...an 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.... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2004 - 380 sider
...appearance of the ghost of Banquo - that he is caught off guard, unsuspecting, uncertain, iiiiknowing: The time has been That, when the brains were out,...stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. (3.4.77-82) But even here he attempts to bring matters under the control of his knowing and those of... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2004 - 198 sider
...unnatural enough then the natural and supernatural world will not conspire against its concealment: The time has been That, when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (Macbeth 3.4.77-81) Later Macbeth will curse the witches: "Infected be the air whereon they ride, /... | |
 | Ernest Emenyo̲nu, Iniobong I. Uko - 2004 - 488 sider
...Shakespeare's Macbeth in, iv, 77 ff where, in his distress over the appearance of Banquo's ghost Macbeth says: The time has been that when the brains were out the...murders on their crowns and push us from our stools. In both Shakespeare and Achebe resurrection is not treated in terms of orthodoxy, that is, the resurrection... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - 2005 - 216 sider
...apparition itself, Macbeth protests against it because it is unnatural, contrary to the law of order. The time has been, That, when the brains were out,...stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. (Ill, iv, 78-83) "Strange" means "unnatural".) Having committed unnatural deeds in order to gain and... | |
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