 Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged 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...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Страница 4по Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 568 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 372 страници
...JOHNSON. 161. and there is an end. ,] ie there is the conclusion of the matter. So, in Macbeth : " a time has been " That when the brains were out, the man would die, " And there an end." STEEVENS. 169. All Ms I speak in print ; ] In print means with exaSness. So, in... | |
 | 1793 - 444 страници
...fo ojd, and infirm in intellect, fhould attempt fuch a charafter ? Ned replied drily, from Macbeth, The time has been, That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end : but now Related by Garrick. Foote dined. one day at the Caftle at Salthill. When... | |
 | Giuseppe Hager - 1794 - 254 страници
...not your brains, write paft'rals like Sir John — " " That I can do when all my brains are gone." The time has been that when the brains were out, The man would die, and there an end no doubt. Now, with their mortal follies in their head, They rife again, and almoft... | |
 | Edmund Poulter - 1794 - 244 страници
...Rack not your brains, write paft'rals like Sir John—" " That I can do when all my brains arc gone." The time has been that when the brains were out, The man would die, and there an end no doubt. Now, with their mortal follies in their head, They rife again, and almoft... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1808 - 456 страници
...pillar of our church ! April \. POLITICAL PHANTASMAGORIA. [From the same.]_ SIR, March 25, 1807. — The time has been, 'That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end.Under this idea, we were congratulating ourselves upon the dissolution of party ;... | |
 | 1823 - 816 страници
...course Mr Gait thinks differently, and, we have no doubt, is already deep in composition. — — " The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ;" but now, it seems, authors neither live nor write the less on that account. If... | |
 | 1826 - 370 страници
...well as in his instructions to the other actors, that Shuter exclaimed, " the case was very hard, for the time has been, that when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end." Macklin over-hearing him, good naturedly replied, " Ah, Ned ! and the time was,... | |
 | 1829 - 390 страници
...tedious, that Ned Shuter (in his arch way) exclaimed, the case was very hard, " for the times have been, that when the brains were out, the man would die : but now — " Macklin overhearing him, good-naturedly replied, " Ay Ned, and the times were, that when... | |
 | 1832 - 544 страници
...END OF VOL. I. Tilling, Printer, Chelsea. SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH; OH, ROMANCE IN IRELAND. The times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die; but now, they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. IN TWO... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 страници
...business, when instantly some paragraph opens under him, like one of the trap-doors in the Vision of Mirza, and he drops, without note of preparation, into the...when the brains were out, the man would die ; but Doring orders these things differently. After all, however, we have no pique against poor Doring :... | |
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