...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 "...

...words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion ! Fie upon't ! foh ! About, my brains! Hum! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefaftions : 739 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I'll...

...of the same description. I am, Sir, Your constant reader, ANTHONIO. SINGULAR DETECTIONS OF MURDER. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Hamlet. MR. EDITOR, THE following instances, to which Shakspereis supposed to hare alluded in the above...

...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...

...with 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...speak With most miraculous organ. I'll have these playen Play something like the murder of my father, Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; I'll...

...had murtherd hers Was euer haunted with her husbands ghost : The passion written by a feeling pen, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck...proclaim'd their malefactions: For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. I '11 have these players Play something like...

...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...

...with his eye.s rivetted to the stage ; but when Hamlet repeated the speech in which are these lines : -I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactioiis. He could bear it no longer, but starting up, complained of illness, and Ellen, who was...

...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...

...'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...proclaim'd their malefactions ; " For murder, though it hare no tongue, will speak " With most miraculous organ." Hamlet. * Enter C.CSAR, &c.] Coxeter seldom...