 | 1860 - 834 pagina’s
...history, reminds one of Canning's celebrated sonnet on Eliza Brownrigg — " Dost thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female "prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes, Such as Lycurgus taught . , . For... | |
 | 1829 - 574 pagina’s
...made a more exemplary bawling for the constable. When a woman in his own neighbourhood had ' whipt two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole,' he thought hanging was too good for her ; and there he stood, when the miserable wretch was brought out... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1830 - 366 pagina’s
...said, might be taken as a liberal allowance. He then took a bird's eye view of the Newgate calendar; observing, that there was a manifest family likeness...two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal hole." He should forbear from touching on men's private experiences, or probing their secret wounds,... | |
 | 1830 - 590 pagina’s
...property ; and the English law of inherent right is held to be detestable. Here, when a woman had ' whipped ' two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole ', the law sentenced her to be hanged, and the public feeling said, that hanging was too good for her.... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - 1831 - 592 pagina’s
...made a more exemplary bawling for the constable. When a woman in hit own neighbourhood had ' whipt two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole," he thought hanging was too good for her; and there he stood, when the miserable wretch was brought out... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - 1834 - 428 pagina’s
...said, might be taken as a liberal allowance. He then took a bird's-eye view of the Newgate Calendar ; observing that there was a manifest family likeness...committed by Martha Brownrigg, " Who whipped two female 'prcnt'ce» to death, And hid them in the coal-hole." He should forbear from touching on men's private... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 350 pagina’s
...varieties expand ; Till at the last in slow-drawn cart she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime V She whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes '. Such as Lycurgus taught, when at... | |
 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - 1842 - 504 pagina’s
...that made a more exemplary bawling for the constable. When a woman in his own neighbourhood had "whipt two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole,'' he thought hanging was too good for her ; and there he stood, when the miserable wretch was brought out... | |
 | 1851 - 606 pagina’s
...&c. For one long term, or ere her trial came, Here Brmonrigg linger'd. Dost thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coalhole. &c. * Yet the editor says, — 'However vague and unsettled his thoughts on such subject* were in early... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pagina’s
...expand ; Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart, she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPPED TWO FEMALE 'PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at... | |
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Dost thou ask her crime ? She whipped two female prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. 
