 | Leonard Rice-Oxley - 1924 - 228 pages
...she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPP'D TWO FEMALE PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HED THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as I/ycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such... | |
 | Stanley John Weyman - 1925 - 392 pages
...replied sharply. Then aside, " Who is this ? " she asked. " The governess," some one prompted. " ' Who whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole,' " quoted the Colonel, much to Rachel's confusion. shall. Though I did notice that Ann was looking a... | |
 | John Page - 1927 - 488 pages
...Parodie: For one lang term, or e'er her trial came, Here Brownrigg linger'd . . . Dost thou ask her crime? She whipped two female prentices to death, And hid...Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes Such äs Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine of The Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans; such... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - 1992 - 428 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 4 taught, when at the shrine Of... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 518 pages
...Company has been represented as a fatal omision. So, we repeat, persons think: " for their minds Shape strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes! Such...as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.'— Some journalists of extensive circulation, who very early 'seized a flambeau' in the college-controversy,... | |
 | Simon Dentith, Professor Simon Dentith - 2000 - 228 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 stricrest plans of discipline. Sage schemes! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of... | |
 | 1869 - 912 pages
...of the performances of some modern, and, we hoped, degenerate imitator of that Mrs. Brownrigg, who " Whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole." THE LANCET,] [FEB. 6, 1869. 203 finement, are in the habit of systematically stripping their daughters... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 784 pages
...rather sharply. Then aside, ' Who is this ? ' she asked. ' The governess,' some one prompted. ' " Who whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole," ' quoted the Colonel, much to Rachel's confusion. ' No, no,' said Bobbie, laughing in spite of himself.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1830 - 598 pages
...property ; and the English law of inherent right is held to be detestable. Here, when a woman had ' whipped ' two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole ', the law sentenced her to he' hanged, and the public feeling said, that hanging was too good for... | |
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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. 
