The Chronicles of Crime: Or The New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to 1841 ... Including a Number of Curious Cases Never Before Published. Embellished with Engravings, from Original Drawings by "Phiz".Reeves and Turner, 1886 - 592 páginas |
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Página 571 - the officer of the court, in the usual way, to declare what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, advanced to the front of the dock with a vacant stare, and inquired
Página 58 - the authority aforesaid, that whenever any person taketh money or reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account of helping any person or persons to any stolen goods or chattels, every such person so taking money or reward as aforesaid (unless such person do apprehend or cause to be apprehended such felon who stole
Página 376 - the garish scene, she began, with the capriciousness of a sickly heart, to warble a little plaintive air. She had an exquisite voice ; but on this occasion it was so simple, so touching, it breathed forth such a soul of wretchedness, that she drew a crowd mute and silent around her, and melted every one into tears.
Página 373 - grave to give her independence—am I to be loaded with the foul and grievous calumny of being an emissary of France? My Lords, it may be part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to meet the ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the scaffold's shame or
Página 118 - end indifferently we view, True to no king, to no religion true : No fair forgets the ruin he has done ; No child laments the tyrant of his son ; No Tory pities, thinking what he was ; No Whig compassions, for he left the cause ; The brave regret not, for
Página 119 - that beauteous neck Round which her arms had fondly closed ; And mangled was that beauteous breast On which her love-sick head reposed ;— And ravish'd was that constant heart She did to every heart prefer ; For, though it could his king forget, 'Twas true and loyal still to her. Amidst those unrelenting flames She bore this constant heart to
Página 119 - 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. Though justice ever must prevail, The tear my Kitty sheds is due
Página 376 - a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction. She was led into society, and they tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate
Página 118 - unhappy in his crimes of youth, Steady in what he still mistook for truth, Beheld his death so decently unmoved, The soft lamented, and the brave approved. But Lovat's end indifferently we view, True to no king, to no religion true : No fair forgets the ruin he has done
Página 448 - be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence, on Monday next, to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck until yon are dead ; and that your body be