 | 1861 - 676 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1907 - 708 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pagina’s
...William Weare, murdered by Thurtell, at Gill's-hill, in Hertfordshire, lived at No. 2 in Lyon's Inn. " 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." Contemporary Ballod, attributed to Theodore nook. Isaac Reed (d. 1807) had... | |
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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. 
