 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 pages
...: — ' 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 Robert Keppel - 1842 - 478 pages
...: — ' 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... | |
 | Israel Acrelius, New Sweden. Upland court, William Penn - 1855 - 462 pages
...; Ne mi resta ora, in cho piu far disegno, Se non d'andarmi io stcssa in mano a porre Di si cruclel nimico, e lui disciorre. The fatal similarity of fortune...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 pages
...resta ora, in che piu far disegno, Se non d'andarmi io stessa in mano d porre Di si erudel nimico, o lui disciorre. The fatal similarity of fortune weighed...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 pages
...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 to tuck herself up." " Braddock himself had been somewhat of a spendthrift. lte was touchy also, and punctilious. " He once... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1856 - 458 pages
...Edward Braddock, on this sad occasion, must inspire the reader. That, through her k.vities or his i own misconduct, his affections should have been long...would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up !" l No sensibility could exist in his heart who could, for the sake of a scurvy pun, jest upon the... | |
 | 1857 - 656 pages
...fortune at Bath, deliberately hanged herself. When Braddock was told of it, all that he said was, " Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up." Both sexes were equally addicted to the gaming-table. "In private society, as many as ten or dozen... | |
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... 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 only a note upon the table with those lines, ' To die is landing on some silent shore,'... 
