The life and times of James Catnach ... ballad mongerReeves and Turner, 1878 - 432 pages |
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... body of the youth , lying upon the driven snow ; the trusty collie dog with his forepaw resting upon the head of his young master , and not far from them is also the dead object of their search . The storm has abated , but the ground is ...
... body of the youth , lying upon the driven snow ; the trusty collie dog with his forepaw resting upon the head of his young master , and not far from them is also the dead object of their search . The storm has abated , but the ground is ...
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... body of the work are of the most anti - Bewickian character , it is possible to conceive ; the piece at the end is very chaste , and said to have been drawn by Thurston , and engraved by Thomas Bewick , for the elder Catnach . The old ...
... body of the work are of the most anti - Bewickian character , it is possible to conceive ; the piece at the end is very chaste , and said to have been drawn by Thurston , and engraved by Thomas Bewick , for the elder Catnach . The old ...
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... Bodies found in the Shop of a Pork Butcher . We have just been informed of a most dreadful and horrible discovery ... Body Snatcher and when she left the Shop ( meaning the said Shop ) she ( meaning the said woman ) communicated her ...
... Bodies found in the Shop of a Pork Butcher . We have just been informed of a most dreadful and horrible discovery ... Body Snatcher and when she left the Shop ( meaning the said Shop ) she ( meaning the said woman ) communicated her ...
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... bodies to be brought into his said shop with intent to endeavour to sell the same as and for Pork ) and the Jurors aforesaid on their oath aforesaid further say that by means and on account of the said false scandalous malicious and ...
... bodies to be brought into his said shop with intent to endeavour to sell the same as and for Pork ) and the Jurors aforesaid on their oath aforesaid further say that by means and on account of the said false scandalous malicious and ...
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... bodies chopped , And made them into sausages . Poor Pizzey was in an awful mess , And looked the colour of cinders- A crowd assembled from far and near , And they smashed in all his windows . " Now Jemmy Catnach's gone to prison , And ...
... bodies chopped , And made them into sausages . Poor Pizzey was in an awful mess , And looked the colour of cinders- A crowd assembled from far and near , And they smashed in all his windows . " Now Jemmy Catnach's gone to prison , And ...
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Page 104 - REAL LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall. By an Amateur (Pierce Egan). With 31 Coloured Plates by Alken and Rowlandson, etc.
Page 244 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 414 - Arms and Armour, in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons. Translated from the French of MP LACOMBE, and with a Preface, Notes, and One Additional Chapter on Arms and Armour in England, by CHARLES BOUTELL, MA, Author of "English Heraldry.
Page 244 - I confess for myself that (with no great delinquencies to answer for) I am glad for a season to take an airing beyond the diocese of the strict conscience, — not to live always in the precincts of the law-courts, — but now and then, for a dream-while or so, to imagine a world with no meddling restrictions — to get into recesses, whither the hunter cannot follow me — -Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost prove, While yet there was no fear of Jove.
Page 211 - That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers. " 3. That their weight, including engine, fuel, water, and attendants, may be under three tons. " 4. That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable inclination with facility and safety.
Page 45 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 37 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling 'round it still.
Page 78 - In contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 211 - That, as they admit of greater breadth of tyre than other carriages, and as the roads are not acted on so injuriously as by the feet of horses in common draught, such carriages will cause less wear of roads than coaches drawn by horses.
Page 31 - I passed ; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the mind of man.