 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 ; but we are such uncommon people here (at Cambridge) as to have no more sense of danger than...  Tales of a Grandfather: Scotland - Pàgina 219per Walter Scott - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pàgines
...head, or of a coach overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three people, sensible middle aged men (when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford,...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road) to see the Pretender and the Highlanders as they passed. 3 I can say no more for Mr. Pope... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pàgines
...apprehension than of a broken head, or of a coach overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three people, sensible middle-aged men (when the Scotch were said...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road) to see the Pretender and the highlanders as they passed. I can say no more for Mr. Pope... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1820 - 416 pàgines
...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...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road), to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed." But the English aristocracy, though... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pàgines
...apprehension than of a broken head, or of a coach overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three people, sensible middle-aged men (when the Scotch were said...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road, to see the Pretender and the highlanders as they passed. I can say no more for Mr. Pope... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pàgines
...apprehension than of a broken head, or of a coach overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three people, sensible middle-aged men (when the Scotch were said...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high road) to see the Pretender and the highlanders as they passed. I can say no more for Mr. Pope... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1821 - 542 pàgines
...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...of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton, (a place in the high road,) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed." But the English aristocracy, though... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pàgines
...than of a broken head, or of a coach overturned between York and Edinburgh. I heard three - people, sensible middle-aged men (when the Scotch were said...of hiring a chaise .to go to Caxton (a place in the high road) to see the Pretender and the Highlanders as they passed. • The following series of letters,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pàgines
...of the moment, lies open as a prize to the first comers, whether Scotch or Dutch ; and a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole, paints an indifference yet...public laboured during this crisis, is to be found in these papers, in a letter from the well-known Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. " If I had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 520 pàgines
...to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought where and when the batde of Canme was. I heard three sensible, middle-aged men, when...at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hirmg a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pàgines
...of the moment, lies open as a prize to the first comers, whether Scotch or Dutch ; and a letter from Gray to Horace Walpole, paints an indifference yet...public laboured during this crisis, is to be found in these papers, in a letter from the well-known Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President. " If I had... | |
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