 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 - Page 1by Thomas Carlyle - 1860Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 372 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Poulter - 1794 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Giuseppe Hager - 1794 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...Mirza, and he drops, without note of preparation, into the shades below. Perhaps, indeed, not for ever : we have instances of his rising after the funeral,...when the brains were out, the man would die ; but Doering orders these matters differently. We beg leave to say, however, that we really have no private... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1808 - 456 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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