 | Daniel Defoe - 1904 - 266 pages
...his hymn in chorus around him, repeating with special fervor the lines i — " Tell them the men who placed him here Are scandals to the times : Are at...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." Deioe's imprisonment lasted a year, and in that time his tile -works failed. But immediately on his... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - English literature - 1905 - 314 pages
...Pillory, which he called a state machine for punishing fancy. He closed with a message to his judges, — Tell them : The men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes ! Defoe carried the day. He stood in the pillory ; but flowers were heaped around him, he was cheered... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1905 - 870 pages
...National Biography " calls attention to the fine lines : " 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." The last person who stood in the pillory in London was Peter James Bossy, for perjury, not however... | |
 | Leisure - 1882 - 816 pages
...been secure Had he said less, or would he have said more. 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." The verses had an amazing sale. Poor Defoe was ruined, but his appearance in the pillory, like the... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1910 - 268 pages
...men of their honesty afraid ; That for the time to come they may More willingly their friends betray. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes. If we could accept as history his account of the great storm, 27th November 1703, he must have been... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - Industrial relations - 1922 - 332 pages
...exposure and bought with enthusiasm by the crowd. Its spirit is shown in the familiar lines, Tell 'em the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times,...loss to find his guilt And can't commit his crimes. Defoe's pluck had won the day, and turned his punishment into a reflection upon those who had inflicted... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1924 - 568 pages
...eagerly bought by the crowd, contains the following lines, to which Sir Sidney Lee draws attention : ' Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes ! ' The Camisards also supplied their quota to this pillory. Their welcome to this country was due... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - English poetry - 1914 - 82 pages
...their honesty afraid. That for the time to come they may More willingly their friends betray ; Tell 'em the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times,...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." 2 1 The Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman, 1705, ii. p 104. 2 Ibid, p. 117. Defoe... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1924 - 564 pages
...eagerly bought by the crowd, contains the following lines, to which Sir Sidney Lee draws attention : ' Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes ! ' The Camisards also supplied their quota to this pillory. Their welcome to this country was due... | |
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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. 
