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" I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar," where people make a trade of letting spyingglasses at a halfpenny a look. "
London and Westminster: city and suburb - Page 100
by John Timbs - 1868
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The New Zealanders

George Lillie Craik - Adventure and adventurers - 1830 - 444 pages
...Walpole, in a very few words, describes the feelings with which the publiccrowded to this sight:—" I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...at Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting spying glasses at a halfpenny a look *." The New Zealanders have, therefore, in some degree, a justification...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberry-tree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...trade of letting spying-glasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night.. I saw Murray, 1 lord Derwentwater, 2 lord Traquair,' lord Cromartie...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberry-tree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...trade of letting spying-glasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night. I saw Murray,1 lord Derwentwaler," lord Traquair, ' lord Cromartie1 and...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberry-tree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar, 1 where people make a trade of letting spying-glasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberry-tree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar,1 where people make a trade of letting spying-glasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived...
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The New Tablet of Memory; Or, Recorder of Remarkable Events, Compiled and ...

William D. Reider - 1841 - 610 pages
...after ihe Rebellion of 1745. Horace Walpole, in one ofjhis letters, dated August 16, 1746, says,—" I have been this morning at " the Tower, and passed...Temple Bar, where people " make a trade of letting spy-glasses at a halfpenny a look." These heads were removed at the commencement of the present century....
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1735-1748

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberrytree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...trade of letting spyingglasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night. I saw Murray, Lord Derwentwater, Lord Traquair, Lord Cromartie and his...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters ...

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 594 pages
...bantams by it, but will leave them here till I am more settled under the shade of my own mulberrytree. I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...trade of letting spyingglasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night. I saw Murray, Lord Derwentwater, Lord Traquair, Lord Cromartie and his...
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Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 318 pages
...shins with this damned axe.'" On the 16th of August, Walpole writes to the same correspondent:—" I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed...at Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting out spying-glasses at a halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night. I saw Murray, Lord Derwentwater,...
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Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 310 pages
...August, Walpole writes to the same correspondent : — " I have been this morning at the Tower, 18* and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting out spying-glasses at a. halfpenny a look. Old Lovat arrived last night, I saw Murray, Lord Derwentwater,...
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