 | Thomas M'Crie - 1819 - 570 pagine
...authors, and to the honour of the individual who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes *. When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His nephew was... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1824 - 566 pagine
...authors, and to the honour of the individual who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit hia crimes *. When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1824 - 600 pagine
...who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Arc scandals to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes *. . When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His nephew was... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pagine
...Because his foolish virtue was so nice As not to sell his friends, according to his friends' advice. And thus he's an example made, To make men of their honesty...revenge upon his enemies for their abuse of power. Gibber justly says of him, " Mr. De Foe, who possessed a resolute temper, and a most confirmed fortitude... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 972 pagine
...good even to public satisfaction. " Tell them the men that pluc'd him there Are scandals to the time, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crime." " 1 «liuul.l enlarge on this subject, but that, perhaps, the world may in some proper teuoD... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pagine
...he saw the Hymn passed from hand to hand, and heard what it calmly said less calmly repeated, — ' Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit Itis crimes' An undeniable witness who was present (a noted Tory libeller of the day, Ned Ward) frankly... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pagine
...Hymn passed from hand to hand, and heard what it calmly said less calmly repeated, — ' Tell them ihe men that placed him here Are scandals to the times; Are at a loss to find his guilt, .¡ml can't commit Au crimes.' An undeniable witness who was present (a noted Tory libeller of the... | |
 | 1846 - 670 pagine
...up with a sting sharp enough to deter the ministers from provoking him by another procedure : — " Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes !" In his prison he did not give himself up to despair. He had all his prospects in life cut off; his manufactory... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 718 pagine
...aimed at the Attorney-General, whom he suspected, however unjustly, of having deceived him : — " Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...to the times : Are at a loss to find his guilt. And can'/ commit his crimes. ' July 29. ThJ8 was published, and sold in thousands, the day he De Foe in... | |
 | 1847 - 178 pagine
...foolish virtue was so nice As not to sell his friends, according to his friend* advice. And thus his an example made, To make men of their honesty afraid,...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes. ***** What are thy terrors, that for fear of Thee, Mankind can dare to sink their honesty? He is bold... | |
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Tell them, The men that placed him here Are scandals to the Times ! Are at a loss to find his guilt And can't commit his crimes ! V CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY [1766]. 
