| Walter Scott - 1830 - 410 pągines
...receive the limbs which were yet warm with life ; above all, the immense display of human VOL. III. 2 D countenances which surrounded the scaffold like a...preparation, his natural feelings broke forth in a whisper to th& friend on whose arm he leaned, " Home, this is terrible !" No sign of indecent timidity, however,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pągines
...of 1 745-6, the Earl of Kilmarnock was the only one that confessed guilt, or expressed repentance.] sea, all eyes being bent on the sad object of the...friend on whose arm he leaned, " Home, this is terrible I"1 No sign of indecent timidity, however, affected his behaviour ; he prayed for the reigning King... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pągines
...of 1 745-6, the Earl of Kilmarnock was the only one that confessed guilt, or expressed repentance.] sea, all eyes being bent on the sad object of the...friend on whose arm he leaned, " Home, this is terrible I"1 No sign of indecent timidity, however, affected his behaviour ; he prayed for the reigning King... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pągines
...of 1 745-6, the Earl of Kilmarnock was the only one that confessed guilt, or expressed repentance.J sea, all eyes being bent on the sad object of the...the friend on whose arm he leaned, " Home, this is terrible!"1 No sign of indecent timidity, however, affected his behaviour ; he prayed for the reigning... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pągines
...says Sir Walter Scott, in Tales of a Grandfather, " he beheld the fatal scaffold covered with hlack cloth ; the executioner with his axe and his assistants...indecent timidity, however, affected his behaviour." — E. claring he wished that all who embarked in the same cause might meet the same fate. He then... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pągines
...; the executioner with his axe and his assistants ; the saw-dust which was soon to be drenched *ith his blood ; the coffin prepared to receive the limbs...scaffold like a sea, all eyes being bent on the sad nhject of the preparation, his natural feelings broke forth in a whisper to the friend on whose arm... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pągines
...times tried the block ; the execu• " When," Bays Sir Walter Scott, in Tales of a Grandfather, " he beheld the fatal scaffold, covered with black cloth...terrible !' No sign of indecent timidity, however, atfected his behaviour." — E. tioner, who was in white with a white apron, out of tenderness concealing... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pągines
...block ; the exeeu• "When," says Sir Walter Scott, in Tales of a Grandfather, "he beheld the fata! scaffold, covered with black cloth ; the executioner...on the sad object of the preparation, his natural feelinjrs broke forth in a whisper to the friend on whose arm he leaned, ' Home, this is terrible !'... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 pągines
...prepared to receive the limbs which were yet warm with life; above all, the immense display of hum*n countenances which surrounded the scaffold like a sea, all eyes being bent on the sail object of the preparation, his natural feelings broke forth in a whisper to the friend oa whose... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 310 pągines
...he was deeply alive to the terrors of that awful moment. "When he beheld," says Sir Walter Scott, " the fatal scaffold covered with black cloth ; the...whose arm he leaned, — ' Home, this is terrible !' " Neither in the bearing, however, of his graceful figure, nor in the expression of his pale and... | |
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