 | 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 - 1830 - 410 pàgines
...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...see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed." A farther evidence of the feelings under which the public laboured during this crisis, is to be found... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 410 pàgines
...ominous to the public cause than the general panic : " The common people in town at least know howto he afraid ; but we are such uncommon. people here"...to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see 4He Pretender and Highlanders as they passed." A further evidence of the feelings under which the public... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pàgines
...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...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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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 if the battle had been fought where and when the battle of Cannae was. — I heard three sensible middle-aged... 
