 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pàgines
...and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband. I wish I could apply it to myself, if the reader would... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pàgines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pàgines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly,... | |
 | 1820 - 646 pàgines
...said the wife of a very useful though ignoble member of the commonwealth, — ' any man is capable of a plain piece of work — a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, — 'tis only my Mr Ketch can do that ! ' Aristophanes has all this merit. He certainly executes... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 pàgines
...Jack Ketch's -f wife said I presume, this celebrated finisher of the law, who bequeathof his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband. I wish 1 could apply it to myself, if the reader would... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pàgines
...Ketch's -f wife said t I presume, this celebrated finisher of the law, who bequeathof his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband. I wish 1 could apply it to myself, if the reader would... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pàgines
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's...die fweetly, was only belonging to her hufband. I wifh I could apply it to myfelf, if the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pàgines
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's...malefactor die fweetly, was only belonging to her hufband. 1 wifh I could apply it to myfelf, if the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me. The... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 pàgines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's* wife said * I presume, this celebrated finisher of the law, who bequeathof his servant, of a plain piece... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable (as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant) of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly... | |
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... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of... 
