 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 страници
...ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly this verse of Mr Hook's broadside— " They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they...battered in ; His name was Mr William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn." hospitable family. Feeling myself returned to that celibacy which renders many accommodations... | |
 | 1861 - 676 страници
...tragedy, including, of course, Theodore Hook's broadside, one verse of which tickled his taste to a T, — They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in ; His name was Mr. William Weare, He dsvelt in Ljou's Inn. Goldsmith's travelled cosmopolite from the Celestial Empire has this remark to... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 790 страници
...particularly this verse of Mr. Hook's broadside — " They cut hie throat from ear to ear, His braina they battered in ; His name was Mr. William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn." cerned, and see them when the meeting could be more pleasant. But then, having an offer... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 страници
...ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly thu verse of Mr Hook's broadside — " They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they...battered in ; His name was Mr William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn." " July 1 7. — Desidia tandem valedixi — Our time is like our money. When we change... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 страници
...ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly thii v«rse of Mr Hook's broadside — " They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in ; Bis name was Mr William Wean), He dwelt in Lyon's Inn." " July \1. — Desidia tandem valedixi. —... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 436 страници
...them. He admired particulirly this verse of Mr Hook's broadside — *• They cut his throat from car to ear, His brains they battered in ; His name was Mr William Wearo, He dwelt in Lyon'a Inn," " July \1. — Desidia; tandem valedixi. — Our time is like our money.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 432 страници
...ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly this verse of Mr Hook's broadside — " They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in ; His name was Mr William He dwelt in Lyon's Inn. " " July 17. — Desidiae tandem, valedixi. — Our time is like our money.... | |
 | 1893 - 688 страници
...in his enlarged work, under " Lyon's Inn," gives the lines on this subject thus:— " They cut bii throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in ; His name was Mr. William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inu. Contemporary ballad attributed to Theodore Hook." Probably the ballad in extenso may be... | |
 | 1907 - 708 страници
...xii. 74, 136, 296 as to the authorship of the lines (said to be greatly admired by Sir Walter Scott) They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in ; Hia name was Mr. William Weare, And dwelt in Lyon's Inn. Thackeray and Maginn were both mentioned... | |
 | 1850 - 758 страници
...somewhat in mind of the unrivalled bathos of a certain popular ballad of the time: His throat they cut from ear to ear ; His brains they battered in ! His name was Mr. William Weare ; He lived at Lincoln's Inn ! It mas horrible ! and Mr. Bulwer's succeeding novels were horrible too. He... | |
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They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered In; His name was Mr William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon's Inn. 
