| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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