 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 422 pages
...were departed ; 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 588 pages
...only to torment the House. If he sat silent, be was told that his silence was insidious — — — " The times have been That, when the brains were out,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools." So he, politically dead as he was, walked abroad in his metaphysical capacity, to torment the House,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...that I bad murder'd, came to my tent, and every one did threat — Shakspeare. Rich. HI. The time hath been, That when the brains were out, the man would...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. Macbetb. LETTER XXII. PETER GRIMES. The Father of Peter a Fisherman. — Peter'* early Conduct.—His... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 428 pages
...having used this quotation from Shakespeare, the day or two before Lord North retired two years ago : -the times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die And there an end; Mr. Sheridan said, the souls of the present ministry were departed; but their bodies, like empty forms,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...been perform d Too terrible for the ear : the limes hire bee, That, when the brains were out, the nun would die ; And there an end : but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowm, And push us from our stools: this i> mot* Than such a murder is. [itranc« Lady. My worthy lord,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 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,...murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools : This is more strange Than such a murder is. Lady M. My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you.... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 866 pages
...II. Sc. 1, " Thou stool fora witch." I think I have met with a much stronger from Macbeth, p. 230: but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. Inclosed I submit to your consideration some Queries and Conjectures on Cymbeline, not contained in... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...ridicule : we hope and conclude that they are defunct, and laid to rest ; until, to our astonishment, . - they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. Sometimes, indeed, the deceased dare not for shame shew themselves at their resurrection with precisely... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1820 - 848 pages
...Leopold hastened to meet his virtuous and sanctified coadjutor in his works of villainy. CHAPTER II. -The times have been, That, when the brains were out,...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.... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 pages
...to my tent, and every one did threat Shakspearc. Rich. III. The time hath been, That when the braias were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, Wilh twenty mortal mnrden on their crowns, And push us from our stools. Macbeth LETTER XXII. PETER... | |
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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. 
