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" There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels, here and there with priests saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy of ten years old;... "
The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ... - Page 48
by Horace Walpole - 1837
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

England - 1818 - 762 pages
...mass for the repose of the defunct ; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. 1 had been in dread of being coupled with some boy of...keep me in countenance. When we came to the chapel of Heniy the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased ; no order was observed, people &at or stood where...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct ; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy...older to keep me in countenance. When we came to the chape) of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased ; no order was observed, people sat or...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct ; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy...heralds were not very accurate, and I walked with George GrenvHle, taller and older to keep me in countenance. When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 598 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy of ten years old ; but the herald^ were not very accurate, and I walked with George Grenville, taller and older to keep me in...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register, Volume 8

English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...of its not being Catholic enough. I bad been in dread of being coupled with tome boy often year«' old ; but the heralds were not very accurate, and...or stood where they could or would ; the yeomen of tbe guard were crying out for help, oppressed by the im même weight of the coffin; tbe Bishop 385J...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct ; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy...When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnsty and decorum ceased ; no order was observed, people sat or stood where they could or would...
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The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third ...

Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct ; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy...in countenance. When we came to the chapel of Henry VII., all solemnity and decorum ceased — no order was observed ; people sat or stood where they could...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...could not complain of its not being Catholic enough! I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy ten years old; but the heralds were not very accurate,...Grenville, taller and older, to keep me in countenance. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumbr rland, heightened by a thousand melancholy...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. I had been in dread of being coupled with some boy of ten years old ; but the heralds were 3 The funeral of George the second, took place on the 1 1th of November ; the procession marched from...
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Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the ..., Volume 2

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - Europe - 1838 - 532 pages
...long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaro scuro. * * * When we came to the Chapel of Henry the Seventh, all...stood where they could or would ; the yeomen of the guards were crying out for help, oppressed by the immense weight of the coffin ; the bishop read sadly,...
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