 | Periodicals - 1833 - 460 pages
...one. Balmermo certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensihility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing every window and top of bouse filled with spectators, he cried out, ' Look, look, how they are all piled op like rotten oranges... | |
 | English essays - 1834 - 724 pages
...intrepidity of an hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to his execution, seeing every window and top of house filled with spectators, he cried out, ' Look I look 1 how they are all piled np like rotten oranges ! ' My Lady Townshend,* who fell in love with... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...through erroneous political principles, it denied him a right to the allegiance of his people." E. called very loud for the warder, to give him his perriwig,...everybody is so bloodyminded, that they eat rebels I The Prince of Wales, whose intercession saved Lord Cromartie, says he did it in return for old Sir... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepid, ity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...oranges !" My Lady Townshend, who fell in love with Lord Kjlmarnock at his trial, will go nowhere to dinner, for fear of meeting with a rebel-pie ; she says,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too.b As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...dinner, for fear of meeting with a rebelpie ; she says, every body is so bloody-minded, that they eat rebels ! The Prince of Wales, whose intercession saved... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too.b As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...dinner, for fear of meeting with a rebelpie ; she says, every body is so bloody-minded, that they eat rebels ! The Prince of Wales, whose intercession saved... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...how they are all piled up like rotten oranges!'"*] * Letters, vol. ii. pp. 152 to 155. THE HON. GEORGE TOWNSHEND, Afterwards Marquess Townshend. GEORGE,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 318 pages
...and said, "I am Balmerino." — " As he walked from his prison to execution," says Horace Walpole, " seeing every window and top of house filled with spectators,...look, how they are all piled up like rotten oranges !' " The scene which presented itself to the insurgent lords, on their approaching the fatal stage,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...look, how they are all piled up like rotten oranges ! " 2. THE EARTHQUAKE IN LONDON IN 1750. — (PARTS OP TWO LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN.) " Portents... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity of a hero, but with the insensibility of one too. As he walked from his prison to execution, seeing...look, how they are all piled up like rotten oranges !" 2. THE EARTHQUAKE IN LONDON IN 1750. (PARTS OF TWO LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN.) " Portents and prodigies... | |
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... arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation. He was not a quarter of an hour on the scaffold ; Lord Kilmarnock above half a one. Balmerino certainly died with the intrepidity... 
