Jack Sheppard: A RomanceNelson, 1846 - 458 pages |
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Page 276 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 285 - The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age : by one of whom — the facetious Tom Brown — it was said, " Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;; — the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it : the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries, — Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that...
Page 156 - as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London.
Page 24 - The traps !" responded a bystander. "The shoulder-clappers !" added a lady, who, in her anxiety to join the party, had unintentionally substituted her husband's nether habiliments for her own petticoats. " The bandogs !" thundered a tall man, whose stature and former avocations had procured him the nickname of " The long drover of the Borough market.
Page 200 - The garrets were said to be tenanted by coiners, and artists employed in altering watches and jewelry ; the cellars to be used as a magazine for stolen goods. By some it was affirmed that a subterranean communication existed between the thieftaker's abode and Newgate, by means of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the imprisoned felons : by others, that an underground passage led to extensive vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie concealed...
Page 34 - He shall go through the whole course," replied Blueskin, with a ferocious grin, "unless he comes down to the last grig. We'll lather him with mud, shave him with a rusty razor, and drench him with aqua pompaginis. Master, your humble servant. — Gentlemen, your most obsequious trout." Having effected his object, which was to get rid of Blueskin, Baptist turned to Rowland and Sir Cecil, who had watched his proceedings with much impatience, and remarked, "Now, gentlemen, the coast's clear; we've nothing...
Page 286 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of music caus'd by emptiness.
Page 299 - Just at the completion of the new gaol, in 1780, it was assailed by the mob during the Gordon riots, fired, and greatly damaged. The devastations, however, were speedily made good ; and, in two years more it was finished. It is a cheering reflection, that in the present prison, with its clean, well-whitewashed, and well-ventilated wards, its airy courts, its infirmary, its improved regulations, and its humane and intelligent officers, many of the miseries of the old gaol are removed. For these beneficial...
Page 11 - Don't be angry with me, sir," cried the widow, sobbing bitterly, " pray, don't. I know I am undeserving of your bounty ; but if I were to tell you what hardships I have undergone — to what frightful extremities I have been reduced — and to what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake, — if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who have ever...
Page 76 - ... and shining black hair, which, being closely cropped, to admit of his occasionally wearing a wig, gave a singular bullet-shape to his head. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have sat: — faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of vivacity and enjoyment. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery...
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