 I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.  Montalva, or, Annals of guilt - Page 102by Ann Mary Hamilton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | George Lillo, Thomas Davies - English drama - 1810 - 336 pages
...the ignorant ; and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears. And farther, in the same speech, I have heard, That guilty creatures sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaira'd their malefactions. Prodigious ! yet strictly just. • But I shall not take up your valuable... | |
 | 1810 - 494 pages
...a place of supreme pleasure, and there, while they are amused, receive excellent moral instruction. Guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of tV.e scene Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactons. A certain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811
...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fye upon't! foh! About my brains!4 Humph! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 pages
...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fye upon't ! foh ! About my brains !* Humph ! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their male-factions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 414 pages
...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fye upon't ! foh ! About my brains ! 4 Humph ! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have... | |
 | William Richardson - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1812 - 468 pages
...nothing ; no, not for a king, Upon whose property, and most dear life, A damn'd defeat was made. — I have heard, That guilty creatures sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaim';! their malefactions. I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 480 pages
...igu'rant, and ainnze indeed The very faculties of eyes uod ears." And farther, in the same speech : I have heard,— " That guilty creatures, sitting...Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck sn to the soul, that presently They have proclaim' d their malefactions," Prodigious! yet strictly... | |
 | Philip Massinger - Heraldic bookplates - 1813 - 546 pages
...'Enter CAESAR, ARETINUS, and Guard. Cces. Repine at us ! * / once observed, In a tragedy oj ours, &c.] " I have heard, " That guilty creatures, sitting at...soul, that presently " They have proclaim'd their malefactions ; " For murder, though it hare no tongue, will speak " With most miraculous organ." Hamlet.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814
...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fie upon't! fob! About my brains! Humph! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul, thai presently Tbey have proclaim'd their malefactions! For murder, though it have no tongue, will... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...words, And fall a cursing like a very drab, A scullion ! Fie upon 't ! foh ! About, my brains ! Humph ! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the souT, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefaclions : For murder, though it have no tongue,... | |
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