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" ... management or precaution, to the shoulders of the too merciful executioner. The scene immediately became more interesting. The beadle could by no means be prevailed upon to strike hard, which provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double... "
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Page 234
1824
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British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life, Volume 3

Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1888 - 314 pages
...provoked the constable to still harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver-end, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...capillary club, and, pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper...
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The Life of William Cowper

Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...same, slapped his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not...
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Milton, Volume 2, Part 1

Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver- End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...backwards by the same, slapped his face with a most Amazon fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 284

Early English newspapers - 1898 - 1068 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued till a lass of Silver End, pitying the pitiful beadle, thus suffering under the...capillary club, and, pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury." The pillory continued to be used on special occasions until...
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English Men of Letters: Milton, by Mark Pattison, 1900; Goldsmith, by ...

1900 - 570 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver-End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...backwards by the same, slapped his face with a most Amazon fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should,...
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The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order, Volume 2

William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 512 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...capillary club, and pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper...
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Letters of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1912 - 520 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver-end, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...capillary club, and pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper...
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The Life of William Cowper

Thomas Wright - Poets, English - 1921 - 444 pages
...till a lass of Silver End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the hands of the p1tiless constable, joined the procession, and placing herself...same slapped his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not...
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The Life of William Cowper

Thomas Wright - Poets, English - 1921 - 440 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder; and this double flogging continued till a lass of Silver End, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...herself immediately behind the latter, seized him 194 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER. by his capillary club, and pulling him backwards by the same slapped...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...provoked the constable to strike harder; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silver-end, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the...same, slapped his face with a most Amazonian fury. The concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not...
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