| Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 pągines
...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 - 1895 - 266 pągines
...and leaves it standing in its lace. A man may be capable, as Jack Retek^ 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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pągines
...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... | |
| Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 pągines
...1692. Of him Dryden quaintly says, "A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of her servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband." We may as well add here one or two curious facts respecting... | |
| Alfred Marks - 1908 - 358 pągines
...Original and Progress of Satire " : — " 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." Dr. Murray's Dictionary attributes something of Ketch's... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pągines
...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 malefaj-»or die sweetly was only belonging to her husband." — A Discourse on Satire (1692). (12)... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pągines
...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 * malefactor die sweetly... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pągines
...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 - 1909 - 1112 pągines
...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 я malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to lier husband. I wish I could apply it to myself, if... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pągines
...of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing fflin said of bis servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly,... | |
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