...state machine, contrived to punish fancy in,' and ending — Tell them that placed him here, They're scandals to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, AnJ can't commit hit triniti— may stand for specimens of his best manner. More frequently he degenerates...

...telling passages, and was appreciated by the populace. The following bold lines are well known : " Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." would endure but one skimming ; while wiser men than Gay, better men than Swift or Pope, passed him...

...pinching vicious men, tvfep honest ones in awe. » * » » Till them the men that placed him there Are scandals to the times ; Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes. " At this point we have reached our boundaryline for the present. But as it may be taken for proved...

...good, even to public satisfaction. Tell them, The men that placed him there Are scandals to the Time, Are at a loss to find his guilt. And can't commit his crime. I should enlarge on this subject, but that perhaps the World may, in some proper season, be...

...opinion against the men who placed him there — men, as his -hyme said, scandals to the times, who " Are at a loss to find his guilt. And can't commit his crimes." Defoe returned from the pillory to Newgate, whence h« was not released till July or August, 1704....

...in." " Come," he cried, in the concluding lines— " Tell 'em the M thnt placed him here Are Sc Is to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt. And can't commit his crimes. " "M— " stands for Men, and " Sc Is" for Scandals. Defoe delighted in this odd use of methods of...

...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 ; Art at a loss to find his guilt. And can't commit his crimes." This was published, and sold in thousands,...

...ihey would not hear. And yet lie might have been secure Had lie said less, or would he have said more. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." The verses had. .an amazing sale. Poor Defoe was ruined, but his appearance in the pillory, like the...

...performance may be judged from the concluding stanza : " Tell 'em the M that placed him here Are Sc— — Is to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." A much abler pamphlet than this was The Tnw-Born Englishman* by the same author. It also was written...

...in." " Come," he cried, in the concluding lines — " Tell 'em the M that placed him here Are Sc Is to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." « M- " stands for Men, and " Sc Is " for Scandals. Defoe delighted in this odd use of methods of reserve,...