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A LITERARY LETTER: London, My most Kindly Nurse.--Spenser

... hall of the White Bear. I very much doubt if there is any justification based on sufficient authority for associating Dick Turpin with the Spaniards. All the associa tions with that famous highwayman are pro bably as valid as the blood of Rizzio on the ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2158 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

LINER LOVE

... and Deliver. By Elizabeth Villiers. (S. Paul 12s. 6 d.) Sketches, half-fiction, half-fact, of old-time heroes of the road, Turpin. Duval, Sheppard, and the unspeak able Jonathan Wild as a matter of course and a few lesser fry, like Richard Dudley and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1929
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1817 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Tobacco

... there were circumstances that helped him to win our favour his life in the forest, the fact that he was one against many. Dick Turpin just manages to wriggle into the heroic class by virtue of his great ride on Black Bess but it is his mare, really, who saves ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2308 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... unspeakable horror, ruin to the land scape. Then we saw the maces of Roland and of Oliver, and the slippers of Archbishop Turpin, with many another relic more' trust worthy. I sat for an hour in the old library gazing at giant folios of fathers and schoolmen ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2267 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Pleasant Vices

... of Rubens and gave birth to one of his most vigorous and striking pictures. What romance still clings to the name of Dick Turpin Who knows that in after years our descendants may not cherish the same feelings of tender ness and admiration for some prominent ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2398 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review