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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... "
The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and ... - Pągina 215
per John Dryden - 1760
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Essays from 'Blackwood,'

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...
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Essays

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...
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Among my books

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...
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The Pageant of London, Volum 2

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...
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Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

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...
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English Poems: The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

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)...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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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