Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town, Том 1R. Bentley, 1865 - 331 стор. |
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... hanged for relieving her ; both which are fictions , and led to the popular error of Jane's being starved in a ditch , and thus giving the name to Shoreditch : I could not get one bit of bread , Whereby my hunger might be fed ; Nor ...
... hanged for relieving her ; both which are fictions , and led to the popular error of Jane's being starved in a ditch , and thus giving the name to Shoreditch : I could not get one bit of bread , Whereby my hunger might be fed ; Nor ...
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... hanged , drawn , and quartered . He lay under this sentence till the following year , when he and his brothers , Ambrose and Henry , were liberated by command of Queen Mary , and afterwards rose into high favour at the Courts of Mary ...
... hanged , drawn , and quartered . He lay under this sentence till the following year , when he and his brothers , Ambrose and Henry , were liberated by command of Queen Mary , and afterwards rose into high favour at the Courts of Mary ...
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... hanged on the 15th of November , 1615 , and excited immense interest . She was a woman of great beauty , and had much affected the fashion of the day . Her sentence was to be " hang'd at Tiburn in her yellow Tiffiny Ruff and Cuff , she ...
... hanged on the 15th of November , 1615 , and excited immense interest . She was a woman of great beauty , and had much affected the fashion of the day . Her sentence was to be " hang'd at Tiburn in her yellow Tiffiny Ruff and Cuff , she ...
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... hanged in the gear she had made so fashion- able . The execution attracted an immense crowd to Tyburn , and many persons of quality , ladies as well as gentlemen , in their coaches . Mrs. Turner had dressed herself specially for her ...
... hanged in the gear she had made so fashion- able . The execution attracted an immense crowd to Tyburn , and many persons of quality , ladies as well as gentlemen , in their coaches . Mrs. Turner had dressed herself specially for her ...
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... hanged . Every effort was made to save Don Pantaleon's life ; but Cromwell's only reply was : " Blood has been shed , and justice must be satisfied . " The only mercy shown was a respite of two days , and a reprieve from the disgraceful ...
... hanged . Every effort was made to save Don Pantaleon's life ; but Cromwell's only reply was : " Blood has been shed , and justice must be satisfied . " The only mercy shown was a respite of two days , and a reprieve from the disgraceful ...
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Сторінка 85 - I rather think it was in his face. Much was the hurry and confusion; cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean. His Majesty then got up and would dance with the Queen of Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state; which was not a little defiled with the presents of the queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Сторінка 89 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Сторінка 170 - Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day: Such is the cowardice of a commercial place.
Сторінка 159 - Heaven ! of woes like ours, And let us, let us weep no more.' The dismal scene was o'er and past, The lover's mournful hearse retired ; The maid drew back her languid head, And, sighing forth his name, expired.
Сторінка 86 - Now did Peace make entry, and strive to get foremost to the king ; but I grieve to tell how great wrath she did discover unto those of her attendants ; and, much contrary to her semblance, most rudely made war with her olive branch, and laid on the pates of those who did oppose her coming.
Сторінка 118 - I find the Duke of Albemarle at dinner with sorry company, some of his officers of the Army: dirty dishes and a nasty wife at table, and bad meat, of which I made but an ill dinner.
Сторінка 154 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Сторінка 85 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those whom I could never get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion, and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Сторінка 245 - ... how at the head of his troop he stopped a lady's coach, in which there was a booty of four hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred, and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath...
Сторінка 98 - ... that night, to the Blue Boar Inn in Holborn ; for there he was to take horse, and go to Dover with it. This messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle, but some persons in Dover did.