 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...Man, and the Finenefs of a Stroke that feparates the the Head from the Body, and leaves it Handing in its Place. A Man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's Wife faid of his Servant, of a plain Piece of" Work, a bare Hanging; but to make a Malefactor die fweetly, was only... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the body, and leaves it flanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's...of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor dis fweetly, was only belonging to her hufband. I wim I could apply it to myfelf ; if the reader would... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 398 pages
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's...plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefaftor die fweetly, was only belonging to her hufband. I wiih I could apply it to myfelf ; if the... | |
 | Walter Harte - 1767 - 326 pages
...D'awnant, in return, prelerved Milton at the Rclloratioa. •}• Alluding to a paflage in DrjJen : " A man may be capable, " as Jack Ketch's wife faid of his fervant, of a plain piece of workt " hare hanging; butj to make a malefjictor DIE SWEETLY, was " only belonging to her huiband."... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the bodv, and leaves it Handing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife fajd of his fervant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefaftor die fweetly,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 398 pages
...the head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch,' s wife faid of his fervant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefaftor die fweetly, was only beknging to her hufband. I wifh I could apply it to myfelf ; if the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 384 pages
...of a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife faid of his fcrvant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefaftor die fweetly, was only belonging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1130 pages
...a man, and the fintnds .of -a ftroke that -feparates the It.ad from the body, and leaves it Handing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack. Ketch's wife laid of his fervant, .of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to • make a • malefactor die... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 pages
...a man, and the finenefs of a ftroke that feparates the I head from the body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. | A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's...plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefaftor die fweetly, was only belonging to her hufband. I wifh I could apply it to myfelf ; if the... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...of a man, and the finenefs of a woke that feparates the head from the. body, and leaves it ftanding in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife (aid of her fervant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging : but to make a malefa&or die Aveetly,... | |
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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... 
