 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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, William Mason - 1820 - 548 էջ
...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 - 1820 - 492 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...moment, "lies open as a prize to the first comers, whether Scotch or Dutch;" and a letter from the poet Gray to Horace Walpole, paints an indifference yet...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 էջ
...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" (at...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1833 - 520 էջ
...ominous to the public cause than the general panic : " The common people in town at least know how to he afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here" (at...public laboured during this crisis, is to be found in a letter from the well-known Sir Andrew Mitchell to the Lord President.* " If I had not," says the... | |
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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... 
