 | Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 394 pages
...Man delights not me. Hamlet. Ibid. On Players and Plays. I .have heard, that guilty Creatures fitting at a Play, Have, by the very Cunning of the Scene, Been ftruck unto the Soul, that prefently They have proclaim'd their Maletaftionr. Sam. Hid. Death, or to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1733 - 520 pages
...v-/!-a " A cull ion, — fye upon't ! foh ! — about, my brain! — I've heard, that guilty creatures, at a Play, Have by the very cunning of the Scene Been ftruck fo to the foul, that prefently '•• <• rr^**** They have proclaim'd their malefadlions.... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...many political culprits, writhing under the consciousness of crime ; — and as, like Hamlet, he has heard — ' " That guilty creatures sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions,"— he generously resolves, that they shall not be exposed to such "... | |
 | Charles Shadwell - English drama (Comedy) - 1797 - 446 pages
...The very faculty of eyes and ears. dn d farther, in the same speech : Tie heard that guilty creatures at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been so struck to the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. leave just to observe,... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 454 pages
...The very faculty of eyes and ears. And farther, in the same speech : I've heard that guilty creatures at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been so struck to the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefaclions. Prodigious ! yet strictly... | |
 | 1802 - 448 pages
...of the same description. I am, Sir, Ypur constant reader, ANTHONIQ. SINGULAR DETECTIONS OF MURDER. 1 have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...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... | |
 | 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 - 492 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 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... | |
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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 proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. 
