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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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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature ...

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...; Till at the last in slow-drawn cart she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? She tvhippd two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the...discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught. . . ." After Southey, too, had given up his project of emigration and won the hand of his Miss Fricker,...
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The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London ..., Volume 7

William John Hardy - 1905 - 422 pages
...Holborn end of Fetter Lane was used as an execution ground. At No. 1 7 lived a Mrs. Brownrigg, Who whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. Some very picturesque old gabled houses were to be seen at the Holborn end of the thoroughfare. These,...
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The Thackeray Country

Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1905 - 344 pages
...; Lord Ferrars, for the murder of his servant ; Dr Dodd, for forgery ; and Mrs Brownrigg, who "... whipped two female prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole." Mrs Brownrigg was made the principal character of a satire on the " Newgate " novels, which appeared...
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 4

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1906 - 394 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...discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught. . . « After Southey, too, had given up his project of emigration and won the hand of his Miss Fricker,...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 6

William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 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 Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught,...
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Parodies and Imitations Old and New

J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White - 1912 - 620 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...Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan Goddess2 he bade flog The little Spartans : such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college. For...
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A Century of Parody and Imitation

Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 460 pages
...expand; 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 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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The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and ..., Volume 2

William Winter - 1913 - 772 pages
...the murderer, in London, of whom Canning wrote, in the "Anti-Jacobin," in his satirical elegy, that "She whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole." WHITEWASH. "How can any one think that the Salome of Sudermann is shocking? . . . When for the first...
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 4

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1923 - 398 pages
...; Till at the last in slow-drawn cart she went To execution. Dost them ask her crime ? She whipp'd two female 'prentices to death. And hid them in the...her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage scheme* ! Such as Lycurgus taught. . . After Southey, too, had given up his project of emigration and...
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A Second Scrap Book

George Saintsbury - 1923 - 392 pages
...the 78th. During my six years at Guernsey almost all the regiments who took turn at garrison — 1 She whipped two female prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole ! the 43rd, the 22nd, the ifth, the 84th, and for a short time the 6th 1 — kept their houses as open...
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