 | English periodicals - 1893 - 822 pages
...Church party to a perpetual shame. There is a fine ring of manly independence in the following lines : Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes ! To the period of William III. belongs that extraordinary production, " Lilliburlero." It is a specimen... | |
 | Thomas Archer - English literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...with acclamations, as they read the lines : — " Tell them the men that placed him here Arc BCiindnlB to the times ; Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." Even his opponents, the Tory pamphleteers, were XVII.] THE MOHOCKS. 357 obliged to acknowledge that... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 - 1895 - 316 pages
...own composition, not less insulting to the befooled Tories than the original pamphlet : " 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 imprisonment, doubtless wearisome and trying to the health, was the foundation of a great success... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Plague - 1895 - 298 pages
...insulting to the befooled Tories than the original pamphlet : "Tell 'em the men that placed him liere Are scandals to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes." Defoe's imprisonment, doubtless wearisome and trying to the health, was the foundation of a great success... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...been secure, Had he said less or would he have said more ! Tell them that, This is his reward, And worse is yet for him prepared ; Because his foolish...loss to find his guilt And can't commit his crimes ! V CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY [1766]. From the ' New Bath Guide,' Letter VIII. FROM the earliest ages, dear... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...prepared ; Because his foolish virtue was so nice, As not to sell his friends, according to his friends' To make men of their honesty afraid ; That for the...loss to find his guilt And can't commit his crimes ! CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY [1766]. From the ' New Bath Guide,' Letter VIII. FROM the earliest ages, dear... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - Authors, English - 1900 - 156 pages
...Pillory," which was bought under his nose with enthusiasm. Its most familiar lines are these : — Tell 'em the men that placed him here Are scandals to the Times,...loss to find his Guilt And can't commit his crimes. Pillory and imprisonment were the lightest part of Defoe's punishment. His incarceration ruined his... | |
 | William Minto - 1901 - 192 pages
...he cried, in the concluding lines — " Tell 'em the M that placed him here Are Sc Is to the tunes, 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,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...opinion against the men who placed him there — men, as his rhyme said, scandals to the times, who " nd in the Jews' books :— When Abraham sat at his tent door, Defoe returned from the pillory to Newgate, whence he was not released till August, 1704. It was in... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - Great Britain - 1903 - 458 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
