 Adieu! my lords, we shall never meet again in the same place.'"' He says he will be hanged ; for that his neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible...  THE FORTY-FIVE - Pàgina 133per LORD MAHON - 1851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pàgines
...sometimes striving by chicanery xxix. fo perpiex or rebut the proofs against him — some174.6. times indulging in ridiculous jests. " I did not " think...did at so melancholy a spectacle, " but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery " took off all edge of compassion. " * When after his sentence he was... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 680 pàgines
...sometimes striving by chicanery XXIX. to perplex or rebut the proofs against him — some1746. times indulging in ridiculous jests. " I did not " think...did at so melancholy a spectacle, " but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery " took off all edge of compassion. " * When after his sentence he was... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1839 - 646 pàgines
...the unfortunate gentleman was still regarded. Hampton Court — sometimes striving by chicanery CHAP. to perplex or rebut the proofs against him — sometimes...he cried, " Farewell, my Lords, we shall never all again " meet in the same place ! " t Like Balmerino and Kilmarnock he was beheaded on Tower Hill ;... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pàgines
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle, but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pàgines
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle, but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pàgines
...short and bended, that, if beheaded, he should be struck on the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all the edge of concern."* He ate heartily during his whole confinement, even the morning of his... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...Royal Highness in his arms, when a child, about the parks of Kensington and Hampton Court — sometimes striving by chicanery to perplex or rebut the proofs...against him — sometimes indulging in ridiculous jests. " 1 did not think it possible, " says Horace Walpole, " to feel so little as I did at so melancholy... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pàgines
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...but tyranny and villany wound up by buffoonery took oft" all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini seemed a great deal shocked,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pàgines
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...but tyranny and villany wound up by buffoonery took off' all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini seemed a great deal shocked,... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pàgines
...by a death he richly deserved for many misdeeds. Walpole well said : " I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all the edge of concern." Eighteen persons were killed by the fall of a scaffold at his execution.... | |
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