 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pàgines
...June: and I commonly return hither in September; a month when I may more probably find you at home. town at least know how to be afraid: but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pàgines
...rapidity of a cannon-bullet to umlefeat us • His poem " De Prineipils Cogitandi." ... . again. The common people in town at least know how to be afraid : but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger, than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1820 - 416 pàgines
...was viewed. " We are such uncommon people," (at Cambridge) says Gray in a letter to Horace Walpole, " as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought where and when the battle of Cannse was. I heard three sensible middleaged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pàgines
...troops ; but the Duke is gone it seems with the rapidity of a cannon-bullet to undefeat us again. The common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger, than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pàgines
...troops ; but the duke is gone it seems with the rapidity of a caunon-bullet to und«feat us again. The common people in town at least know how to be afraid : but we are sucli uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger, than if the b-\ttle had been fought... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pàgines
...troops; but the Duke is gone it seems with the rapidity of a cannon-bullet to undefeat us again. The common people in town at least know how to be afraid; but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger, than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pàgines
...Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic: " The common people in town at least know how to be afraid...battle had been fought where and when the battle of Cannse was. I heard three sensible, middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 520 pàgines
...Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic: " The common people in town at least know how to be afraid...than if the battle had been fought where and when the batde of Canme was. I heard three sensible, middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 328 pàgines
...troops ; but the Duke is gone it seems with the rapidity of a cannon-bullet to undefeat us again. f The common people in town at least know how to be afraid : but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pàgines
...troops ; but the Duke is gone it seems with the rapidity of a cannon-bullet to undefeat us again. f The common people in town at least know how to be afraid : but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of... | |
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The common people in town at least know how to be afraid : but we are such uncommon people here as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought when and where the battle of Cannae was. 
