 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...NK i \N > --.. I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, nothing wherefore. O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should with joy, pleasure, revel, applause, transform ourselves into beasts: I will ask him for my place again ; he... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...a fool, and presently a beast ! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is — a devil. Oh ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF BAD READING AND SPEAKING. Too slightly sounding the accented Vowels.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...luu \ KK\M-.-,. I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, nothing wherefore. 0 that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that wo should with joy, pleasure, revel, applause, transform ourselves into beasts: I will ask him for... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...recreant limbs. 7. I remember a mass of things, but not distinctly ; a quarrel, nothing wherefore. O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! that we should with joy, pleasure, revel, applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! I will ask him for my place again; he... | |
 | Benjamin W. Williams - Alcoholism - 1846 - 70 pages
...Asylum, in Liverpool, 257 came to that state through intemperance. Well might the drunken Cassio say, " O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! " And truly does Holy Writ say of men like this plaintiff, " Cursed is he that putteth the cup to... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...&c. 1. A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Oh, that men should put an enemy in Their mouths,...pleasance, revel and applause, Transform ourselves to beasts ! SHAKSPEARE. 3. They were red-hot with drinking ; So full of valour, that they smote the... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Maker. 62. I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. Oh, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to...steal away their brains ! that we should with joy, pleasure, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! I will ask him for my place again... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...a fool, and precently a beast ! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is — a devil. Oh ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF BAD READING AND SPEAKING. Too slightly sounding the accented Vowels.... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...divine, by some Draconic clause. Childe Harold — Canto 3, Stanza 63. BYROH. MUCH at HOME. 186. O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains. Othello — Act 2, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE an ENEMY. 187. Smooth runs the water where the brook is... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...divine, by some Draconic clause. Childe Harold — Canto 3, Stanza 63. BYRON. MUCH at HOME. 166. O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains. Othello — Act 2, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE an ENEMY. 187. Smooth runs the water where the brook is... | |
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O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. 
