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... he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a Great Man (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of gr...

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...The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke and the younger brother of the Earl, and debts beyond imag...

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...urpin's Ride To York, is devoted to him. Although seemingly little known to a modern audience, Ainsworth's 'Rookwood' gave the world the image of the highwayman with which we are all so familiar. (Summary by paulc)...

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.... It is primarily based upon contemporary newspaper and pamphlet accounts of these trials. Where the criminal is particularly well known, such as the highwayman, burglar and escape artist Jack Sheppard, other sources were used as well. The readings used here are selected to illustrate different aspects of the eighteenth century criminal world and the British legal system.(...

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...7-232; a priest who has illicit intercourse with another man's wife is a highwayman or a thief, 4, 309; bad reputation, an un­ comfortable bed, pun...

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...:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier's head from the rest of his...

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...” Sweet “raucle carlin,” she has none of the sentimentality of the English highwayman’s lady; but being wooed by a tinker and “A pigmy scraper wi’ his... ...ing in the rear, They raised the hue and cry:— “‘Stop thief! stop thief!—a highwayman!’ Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that wa...

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...unexpected demand; however, he presently recollected himself, and told the highwayman, all the money he had in his pocket was entirely at his service;... ...y, he was very sorry for it, and returned the money into his pocket. The highwayman then threatened, if he did not deliver the bank note that moment... ...er person on the ground, roaring for mercy in a much louder voice than the highwayman. This was no other than Partridge himself, who, endeavouring to ... ... Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II got the better of the highwayman. Partridge leapt up at this news, and ran back to the place wh... ...in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery. The truth of all which the highwayman most vehemently asserted, and offered to convince Mr. Jones of i... ... wonder if the rogue attacked them again before they reached London. The highwayman was full of expressions of thankfulness and gratitude. He actual... ...id I think, when you gave me the ten guineas, that you had given them to a highwayman! O heavens! what goodness have you shown! How have you preserved... ...en I con sider the black ingratitude of this fellow toward you, I think a highwayman, compared to him, is an innocent person.” “Good Heaven!” says ... ...e; and so far I confess I have gone; for I have often pitied the fate of a highwayman, when I have been on the grand jury; and have more than once app...

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...runk at a street crossing. Gethings of the San Pablo had taken a shot at a highwayman. Hooven had bayonet- ted a French Chasseur at Sedan. An old Span... ...t. Three days after the hold-up, a sheep-herder was found who had seen the highwayman on a ridge in the higher mountains, to the northeast of Taurusa.... ... answers to her pitiful appeals for tidings fluttering about her head, the highwayman’s mother, worn out, abandoned and forgotten, slept through 338 ... ...ouse grounds, they halted in confusion a moment. One started to follow the highwayman’s trail towards the stable cor- ral, but the other, quartering o... ...d the levers, reaching for his revolver. The engineer once more became the highwayman, in peril of his life. Now, beyond all doubt, the time for fight... ...re was no place to hide, it was a matter of amazement how long a chase the highwayman led them. Fences were passed; fences whose barbed wire had been ... ...e. A special train, one car and an engine, would be made up there, and the highwayman would sleep in the Visalia jail that night. Delaney and S. Behrm... ...; it had hounded Dyke from his legitimate employment and had made of him a highwayman and criminal. It had cast forth Mrs. Hooven to starve to death u...

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...ist, I believe, amongst the number – bit the dust. The grass was springing for the first time, nourished upon their blood, when I arrived in Calistoga...

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...d condition with pistol and blunderbuss beside him, ready to shoot the first highwayman (or railwayman) who shall attempt to stop the horses, which no...

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...politeness or fears of the little clerk very readily as signed to him. ‘A highwayman!’ whispered Tom Cobb to Parkes the ranger. ‘Do you suppose highw... ...of surprise. ‘What in the name of wonder can this fellow be! a mad man? a highwayman? a cut throat? If he had not scoured off so fast, we’d have seen... ...es Dickens ‘If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, gen teel highwayman or patriot—and they’re the same thing,’ thought Mr Tappertit, mu... ...d deterred from going on to night by the marvellous tales of my friend the highwayman, I suppose,’ said Edward. ‘He must be a horseman of good quality... ...oad awake—I saw, in the pas sage of her house one evening after dark, the highwayman who robbed and wounded Mr Edward Chester, and on the same night ... ...the theme, he led the astounded locksmith back to the night of the Maypole highwayman, to the robbery of Edward Chester, to the reappearance of the ma... ...stinction between men and women. I’ve heerd the judge say, sometimes, to a highwayman or housebreaker as had tied the ladies neck and heels—you’ll exc... ...judge didn’t know his business, brother; and that if I had been that there highwayman or housebreaker, I should have made answer: “What are you a talk...

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...tions. “That,” said the surgeon, “is a cast from the celebrated Lancashire highwayman, who concealed his profession for some time from his neighbors, ... ...reupon informed me, that she had herself lived in the neighborhood of that highwayman, and well remembered two circumstances, which combined, in the o...

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...they rode for the mere sport, keeping in a body, their mouths full of laughter, waving their hats as they came on, and crying (as the fancy struck the...

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...n in Newgate were almost as much crowded as the bishops in the Tower, or a highwayman before execution. We were allowed to live in the Governor’s hous...

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...out removing their furniture to upholsterers’ warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recogn... ...kens 4 of London, was made to stand and deliver on T urnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his reti...

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...ecrecy.” “Father, you frighten me,” said Lucien; “this seems to me to be a highwayman’s theory.” “ And you are right,” said the canon, “but it is no i...

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...nt. “Here, in the name of the king and justice!” he cried, “this thief and highwayman wants to kill me for trying to recover my property.” “You lie,” ... ...ll me for trying to recover my property.” “You lie,” said Sancho, “I am no highwayman; it was in fair war my master Don Quixote won these spoils.” Don... ...adges of the officers, he already concluded that he must be some desperate highwayman or other malefactor whose punishment fell within the jurisdictio...

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... respect of moral principles. Certainly with a difference; for the English highwayman had a sort of conscience for gala-days, which could not often be... ...sed these indications to pass unnoticed. Bristol knew of no such Knutsford highwayman—Knutsford knew of no such Bristol murder. It is singular enough ... ...nd “Botanic” regions,—even he, though I might truly describe him as a mere highwayman, whenever he happened to be aware that I had received a friendly...