 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 580 pages
...BENEFITS OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. " Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? " — SHAKESPEARE. " For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline...the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; snch as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college." — CANNING. " Hubble bubble, toil and trouble."... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 pages
...in the " Anti-Jacobin," his cruel parody of Southey's inscription to the regicide Martin : — ' ' She whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. For this act Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws ! But time shall come, When France shall reign and laws be... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 436 pages
...asked had he lived in the days of the Anti-Jacobin, who describes Mrs. Brownrigg as the woman ' ' who whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. " The next pet was Sir Alexander Ball.1 Concerning Bowyer, Coleridge did not talk much, but chiefly... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 442 pages
...anticipations indulged with reference to a criminal like Mrs. Brownrigg — " Does thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female 'prentices to death And hid them in the coal-hole " — might well provoke the satire of the author of the " Needy Knife-Grinder " and the laugh of the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 454 pages
...anticipations indulged with reference to a criminal like Mrs. Brownrigg — " Does thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female 'prentices to death And hid them in the coal-hole " — might well provoke the satire of the author of the " Needy Knife-Grinder " and the laugh of the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 652 pages
...anticipations indulged with reference to a criminal like Mrs. Brownrigg — " Does thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female 'prentices to death And hid them in the coal-hole " — might well provoke the satire of the author of the " Needy Knife-Grinder " and the laugh of the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...was born here, 1675. Tom Payne (Rights of Man) lived at No. 77. At No. 17 lived Mrs. Brownrigg, who Whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. The immortal and veracious Captain Gulliver, after the last of his unadventurous voyages, " removed... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 pages
...printer, and the apprentices were employed in grinding colours. Dost thou ask her crime ? She whipp'd two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. For this act Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws ! But time shall come, When France shall reign and laws be... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1892 - 558 pages
...borgerlige og spidsborgerlige Dyder, at den tvertShe wipp'd two female 'prentices to death And hid ihetn in the coalhole. For her mind Shaped strictest plans...of discipline. Sage schemes Such as Lycurgus taught osv Søskolens østerlandske Romantik. 141 imod paa det Bedste forligtes med dem. Den havde jo nu engang... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 486 pages
...anticipations indulged with reference to a criminal like Mrs. Brownrigg — " Does thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female 'prentices to death And hid them in the coal-hole " — might well provoke the satire of the author of the " Needy Knife-Grinder " and the laugh of the... | |
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Tothill, or thy street, St. Giles, its fair varieties expand ; Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart, she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPPED TWO FEMALE 'PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. 
