 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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 - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...leaves it standing in its place.) A man may be capa- 20 ble, 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 be... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pàgines
...do the thing yet more severely ... 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 be... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1999 - 180 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. 2 ' If the civilizing process improves table manners, it... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 pàgines
...of a Man, and the fineness of a stroak 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,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 pàgines
...and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketche'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 cou'd apply it to my self, if the Reader wou'd... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pàgines
...skill. Thus Dryden remarks : — " 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." The earliest hangman whose name has descended to us, if... | |
 | 1881 - 436 pàgines
...who hold the Ithuriel spear. VIII. " A man may be capable, as Jack Keteh'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's Introduction to Juvenal. ARC. — Well, if... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1920 - 806 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... | |
 | 1895 - 744 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... | |
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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... 
