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... the subject of his story a woman named Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726, for the deliberate murder of her husband, under very revol... ... a gentleman for me; and if I remained to be caught, only a choice between Tyburn and a file of grenadiers. My love, under such circum- stances, a gen... ...money to the poor; finally, he was a lodging-house keeper in the Oxford or Tyburn Road; but continued to exercise the last-named charitable profession... ...e, and when Pineapple Turnpike and Terrace were alike un- known—here stood Tyburn: and on the road towards it, per- haps to enjoy the prospect, stood,... ...he company remarking that “Tom had very likely found some acquaintances at Tyburn, with whom he might choose to pass the morning.” Tom was Master Thom... ...opensity to use sounding words, because we compare three scoundrels in the Tyburn Road to so many armies, and Mr. Wood to a mighty field-marshal. My d... ... sure as my name’s Wood. He’s a Turpin cock in his eye, my dear,—a regular Tyburn look. He knows too many of that sort already; and is too fond of a b... ... is no less than a carpenter’s wife, a well-to-do bourgeois, living at the Tyburn, or Gallows Road. She found out her ancient lover very soon after ou...

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... lord or commoner, shall as legally entitle him to the present possession of Tyburn, as if he robb d on the highway, or cut your throat in bed. I shal...

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..., with the sheriff and javelin- men, conducting him on his last journey to Tyburn? I look into my heart and think that I sin as good as my Lord Mayor,... ...art and think that I sin as good as my Lord Mayor, and know I am as bad as Tyburn Jack. Give me a chain and red gown and a pudding before me, and I co... ...ny more, who suffered manfully for their treason, and who were attended to Tyburn by my lady’s father Dean Armstrong, Mr. Collier, and other stout non...

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...w: Thou makest the triumviry, the corner cap of society, The shape of Love’s Tyburn that hangs up simplicity. LONGAVILLE: I fear these stubborn lines...

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...onding state; and the child was sucking at her breast when she set out for Tyburn.’ Chapter 1 IN THE YEAR 1775, there stood upon the borders of Eppi... ...ublic Progress of some fine gentle 130 Barnaby Rudge man (half drunk) to Tyburn, dressed in the newest fashion, and damning the ordinary with unspea... ...oot, and brought to London at a saddle girth; and you shall hear of him at Tyburn Tree if we have luck. So Hugh says. You’re pale again, and trembling... ...and I was a boy of six— that’s not very old—when they hung my mother up at Tyburn for a couple of thousand men to stare at. They might have let her li... ... year ago, when I got Mary Jones, a young woman of nineteen who come up to Tyburn with a infant at her breast, and was worked off for taking a piece o... ...ght you to this); and that you ask no greater favour than to be carried to Tyburn as soon as pos sible? That being the case, I had better take my lea... ...hemselves of the calm, and withdrew into the country. The shops, too, from Tyburn to 563 Charles Dickens Whitechapel, were still shut; and very littl... ... mean to say—’ ‘I mean to say,’ Hugh interposed, ‘that they hung her up at Tyburn. What was good enough for her, is good enough for me. Let them do th... ... little he cared or thought about it. He gave this stick into his hands at Tyburn, and told him then, that the woman I have spoken of had left her own...

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.... Mortimer was found guilty of all this, and was sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn. The King shut his mother up in genteel con finement, where she pas... ... less so. He was beheaded on T ower Hill, and Perkin Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn. Such was the end of the pretended Duke of York, whose shadowy histo... ...d Bradshaw, were torn out of their graves in Westminster Abbey, dragged to Tyburn, hanged there on a gallows all day long, and then beheaded. Imagine ... ...illory, to be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate one day, and from Newgate to Tyburn two days afterwards, and to stand in the pillory five times a year a... ..., was not so fortunate. He was almost killed by a whipping from Newgate to Tyburn, and, as if that were not punishment enough, a ferocious barrister o... ... very same day, a worthy widow, named Elizabeth Gaunt, was burned alive at Tyburn, for having sheltered a wretch who himself gave evidence against her...

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...you should rot in a state dungeon or satisfy the curiosity of sail- ors at Tyburn. I will be silent, but you must endure your captivity quietly. In fi... ...prisoner and is about to send her to some filthy Botany Bay, some infamous Tyburn of the Indian Ocean. All this she owes to D’Artagnan, without doubt.... ...ca and T yburn,” 520 The Three Musketeers replied Lord de Winter. “Choose Tyburn, madame. Believe me, the cord is more certain than the knife.” Felto... ...will do jus- tice to the lady.” “I should do her justice by sending her to Tyburn,” said Buckingham. “This lady is infamous.” “My Lord, Milady de Wint... ...ore a tribunal. You are not judges! You cannot condemn me!” “I offered you Tyburn,” said Lord de Winter. “Why did you not accept it?” “Because I am no...

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... our pockets: he’s a good locksmith, is that Junius; and before he reaches Tyburn, who knows what amount of mischief he may do to self and partners?’ ... ...ge and jury at the Old Bailey, or critically reviewed by Mr. John Ketch at Tyburn. Francis was the man. Francis was the wicked butler within, whom Pha...

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...tered shops, and the crowds along the pave- ment, much as the rider in the Tyburn cart may have ob- served the concourse gathering to his execution. A...

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...rd Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his life, or a ...

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...executions, I think he ought not to lose any time in taking a first row at Tyburn. This I faithfully promise, that, notwithstanding any affec tion ... ...ty of history for his sake; for we had rather relate that he was hanged at Tyburn (which may very probably be the case) than forfeit our integrity, or...

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... his son, in passing, of his destination, and went his way. They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street out side Newgate had not obtained one...

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...et me, as the gen’l’m’n said to the driver when they was a carryin’ him to Tyburn.’ And quickening his pace to a sharp run, Mr. Weller wheeled his mas...

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...ridegroom _205 Is of a very ancient family, Of Hounslow Heath, Tyburn, and the New Drop, And has great influence in both Houses;—oh! He ma...

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..., he was at length convicted of forgery, and was soon afterwards hanged at Tyburn. The witness for some time seemed to reform his life, and received a...

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...n me, I wonder we ha’n’t better company 129 Little Dorrit – Book Two Upon Tyburn Tree!”’ These words brought them to the drawing-room, where Mr Merdl...

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... we wear.” “To prevent recognition,” said D’Artagnan. “Our clothes have a cut which would proclaim the Frenchman at first sight. Now, I don’t set suff...

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...han in the last of his life; which we perceive to be generally the case at Tyburn, a place which might indeed close the scene of some comedies with mu...

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... 40 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lines, 248 Hence Journals, Medleys, Merc’ries, Magazines: ... ...The cave of Poverty and Poetry. VER. 41 in the former lines— Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lay, Hence the soft sing-song on Cecilia’s day. VER. 42 al... ...ually adorned his shop with titles in red letters.—P . 248 ‘Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lines:’ it is an ancient English custom for the malefactor... ...t English custom for the malefactors to sing a psalm at their execution at Tyburn, and no less customary to print elegies on their deaths, at the same...

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..., with the sheriff and javelin- men, conducting him on his last journey to Tyburn? I look into my heart and think that I sin as good as my Lord Mayor,... ...art and think that I sin as good as my Lord Mayor, and know I am as bad as Tyburn Jack. Give me a chain and red gown and a pudding before me, and I co... ...ny more, who suffered manfully for their treason, and who were attended to Tyburn by my lady’s father Dean Armstrong, Mr. Collier, and other stout non... ...rd Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his life, or a ...

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... nei- ther swore nor talked bawdy; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn, and he neither swore nor talked bawdy. And is it thus, Sir, that yo... ... I mentioned to him that I had seen the execu- tion of several convicts at Tyburn, two days be- fore, and that none of them seemed to be un- der any c... ...f the world is to be done in a new way; men are to be hanged in a new way; Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation.’ It having been argu...

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... a difference, of that haunting last glimpse of Thomas Idle, travelling to Tyburn in the cart. Next come the Shining Ones, wooden and trivial enough; ...

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...mes of Paris? and when was the highwayman most acclaimed but on his way to Tyburn? Or, to take a simile from nearer home, and still more exactly to th...

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...anners of a youth who owed noth- ing to fortune, and who was hanged at the Tyburn of his nation, who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic ...

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...rb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha’n’t better company Upon Tyburn Tree!”’ 549 Little Dorrit These words brought them to the drawing-r...