 ... a very Iroquois in disposition. He had a sister, who, having gamed away all her little fortune at Bath, hanged herself with a truly English deliberation, leaving a note on the table with these lines: 'To die is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When...  Life of George Washington - Stran 163avtor: Washington Irving - 1873Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 strani
...lines " To die is landing on some silent shore, &c." When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up!" But a more ridiculous story of him, and * Duke of Cumberland. f General Hawley, (who behaved with great... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 488 strani
...lines, " To die is landing on some silent shore, &c." When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor Fanny! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck luritlj up." But a more ridiculous story of him, and which 's recorded in heroics by Fielding in his... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 strani
...lines " To die is landing on some silent shore," &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself t1p ! " 1 But a more ridiculous story of him, and which is recorded in heroics by Fielding in his Covent-Garden... | |
 | Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842 - 478 strani
...: — ' To die, is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, ' Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up.' " In another place, he says, " I have already given you some account of Braddock. I may complete the... | |
 | Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 strani
...: — ' To die, is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, ' Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up.' " In another place, he says, " I have already given you some account of Braddock. I may complete the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 strani
...lines: 'To die is landing on some silent shore,' etc. When Bradiloek was told of it, he only said : ' Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up."' Braddook himself had been somewhat of a spendthrift. He was touchy also, and punctilious. " He once... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 strani
...is landing on some silent shore,' Ac. When Braddock was told of it, he only said : ' Poor Fanny II always thought she would play till she would be forced...Braddock himself had been somewhat of a spendthrift. lte was touchy also, and punctilious. " He once hatl a duel," says Walpole, " with Colonel Glumley,... | |
 | 1855 - 458 strani
...inborn, consummate brutality, to guide the tongue which could frame no other expression of sorrow than " Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up !" 1 No sensibility could exist in his heart who could, for the sake of a scurvy pun, jest upon the... | |
 | Israel Acrelius, New Sweden. Upland court, William Penn - 1855 - 462 strani
...inborn, consummate brutality, to guide the tongue which could frame no other expression of sorrow than "Poor Fanny! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up !" t No sensibility could exist in his heart who could, for the sake of a scurvy pun, jest upon the... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1855 - 464 strani
...inborn, consummate brutality, to guide the tongue which could frame no other expression of sorrow than " Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up!"1 No. sensibility could exist in his heart who could, for the sake of a scurvy pun, jest upon the... | |
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