 | Nicholas Toms Carrington, Noel Thomas Carrington - 1834 - 340 páginas
...but a competent witness, Browne, the poet of Tavistock, bears testimony to the fact :— " I've often heard of Lydford law How in the morn they hang and draw. And sit in judgment after, At first I wondered at it much ; But since I've found the matter such. That it deserves no laughter."... | |
 | William Godwin - 1835 - 436 páginas
...mind of the way in which an old English poet* opens one of his shorter pieces : — I oft have beard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. Or, perhaps, it may more fairly be likened to the judge who always quarelled with those who had anything... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1836 - 400 páginas
...the courts of Lydford Castle, for Browne's poem absolutely begins with the following allusion : — " I oft' have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the matter such As it deserves no laughter." Convinced... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1838 - 82 páginas
...who had been banished to the Isle of Man, was now set at liberty by the Duke of Lancaster. P. 18, /. 13. — They mouside the marchall (who) doped the...hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." P. 24, I. 11, we should read, " That Wisdom." The second hand has written in the margin, opposite this line,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1838 - 88 páginas
...proverbial for its summary execution. The passage of our poem affords us the earliest allusion to it which I have yet met with. Fuller gives the proverb thus —...hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." P. 24, I. 11, we should read, " That Wisdom." The second hand has written in the margin, opposite this line,... | |
 | Peter Orlando Hutchinson - 1844 - 326 páginas
...love of expedition prevailed. In Wescott's History of this county, the following lines occur : — " I oft have heard of Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." Satchells, who lived at such time when the Armstrongs were held • in estimation for their power,... | |
 | Thomas Westcote - 1845 - 676 páginas
...pleasantly disposed, that was employed thither : it saith thus, — " I oft have heard of Lydford law, Hour in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. At first I wonder' d at it much, But since I find the matter such, As it deserves no laughter. They... | |
 | Percy Society - 1846 - 410 páginas
...Whom was the notorious Jefferies, may be found in Mrs. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire, London 1826. I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, AE it deserves no laughter. They... | |
 | Percy Society - 1846 - 410 páginas
...whom was the notorious Jefferies, may be found in Mrs. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire, London 1826. I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter. They... | |
 | Percy Society - 1846 - 400 páginas
...whom was the notorious Jefferies, may be found in Mrs. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire, London 1826. I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter. They... | |
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I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter. 
