| Calhoun Winton - Drama - 1993 - 236 pages
...Degree, To curb Vice in others, as well as me, I wonder we han't better Company, Upon Tyburn Treel But Gold from Law can take out the Sting; And if rich Men like us were to swing, 'Twou'd thin the Land, such Numbers to string Upon Tyburn Tree\ The interweaving effect of the ten... | |
| Helmut Koopmann - Brecht, Bertolt - 1999 - 220 pages
...ungerechte Gesellschaft: Since laws were made for ev'ry degree, / To curb vice in others, äs well äs me, / I wonder we han't better Company / Upon Tyburn...But gold from law can take out the sting; / And if rieh men, like us were to swing / 'Twould thin the land such numbers to string / Upon Tyburn tree!... | |
| Helmut Koopmann - Brecht, Bertolt - 1999 - 220 pages
...made for ev'ry degree, / To curb vice in others, as well as me, / I wonder we han't better eompany / Upon Tyburn tree! / But gold from law can take out the sting; / And if rieh men, like us were to swing / 'Twould thin the land such numbers to string / Upon Tyburn tree!... | |
| Delia LaBarre - History - 2007 - 232 pages
...of the case, and a refrain of the old Tyburn song that came into his head: 'Since laws were made for every degree, / To curb vice in others as well as in me, / 'Tis a wonder we hadn't better company / Upon Tyburn tree."' Source: "Wayside Notes," City Item,... | |
| 1828 - 484 pages
...still more audacious verses in the song of Almheath, after his being taken — Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in...I wonder we han't better company Upon Tyburn tree. THE BLIND JOKE. A VERY pretty girl who was blind of the right eye, had a brother who was blind of the... | |
| 544 pages
...eye-glass on his companion's shoulder, "my learned friend will set me right : ' Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company TJpoa Tyburn Tree!'" These words brought them to the drawing-room, where Mr. Merdle stood before the... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pages
...song of " Macheath," in the Beggars Opera, which thus refer to Tyburn : — " Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'nt better company 'Neath Tyburn Tree." One of the earliest executions on this spot was that of " Sir Roger Bolinbroke,... | |
| 1828 - 464 pages
...entirely as his own, in the song of Macheath, after his being taken, were, ** Since Laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we han't better.company Upon Tyburn Tree." These, it appears, were not only Pope's, but most of the satirical... | |
| 368 pages
...if somebody must — but upon my word, I'm unwilling that anybody should. Since laws were made for every degree, to curb vice in others as well as in me — and so forth you know — doesn't it strike you in that light ? " The single gentleman smiled as... | |
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