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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. "
The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life - Page 246
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836
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Works, Volume 8

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 478 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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Pages from an old volume of life. A collection of essays 157-1881

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 458 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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The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, Volume 1

George Augustus Sala - 1895 - 486 pages
...the heroine was a notorious harridan of Fetter Lane, who, according to Canning in the Anti-Jacobin, " whipped two female 'prentices to death and hid them in the coal-hole ; " while Thackeray, then an almost unknown writer, bantered the Old Bailey school of fiction in his...
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Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854-1870

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1897 - 372 pages
...; Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? She whipp'd two female 'prentices to death And hid them in the...Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthian goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton when at college....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 124

1875 - 880 pages
...and liberty. "Dost thou ask her crime?" exclaimed the Anti-Jacobin, sentimentalizing over Brownrigg : She whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid...discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught. In the second number (November 27) appeared the famous "Sapphics" — "Colloquy between the Friend...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 5

Thomas De Quincey - 1897 - 432 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 wrote...
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Walks in London, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 pages
...varieties expand ; Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart, she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime 1 She whipped two female 'prentices to death And hid...For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline.'^ 85-87 Fetter Lane is a fine old house, where the Swedenborgians have their meetings. In Newton Hall,...
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Dickens' London

Francis Miltoun - 1903 - 344 pages
...Canning, in imitation of Southey, recounts it thus in verse: "... Dost them 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...
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Selections from the Anti-Jacobin: Together with Some Later Poems

George Canning - 1904 - 286 pages
...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. For her mind Shap'd strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as LYCURGUS taught, when at the shrine Of...
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Dickens' London

Francis Miltoun - 1904 - 370 pages
...Canning, in imitation of Southey, recounts it thus in verse: "... 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...
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