 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 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, of a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly... | |
 | 1871 - 818 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 844 pàgines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke tlut separates the head from the body, and fesT« 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... | |
 | William Leech (M. R. C. S. E.) - 1879 - 346 pàgines
...VER. 464. spare you at the drop] " 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." DRYDEN, Prose Works. By Malone. v. iii. p. 188. Ibid.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 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,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 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, of a bare hanging : but to make a malefactor die sweetly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 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, of a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 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, of a bare 1 See also that noble passage in the Hind... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 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, of a bare 1 See also that noble passage in the Hind... | |
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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... 
