 To die is landing on some silent shore,' etc. 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.  Montcalm and Wolfe - Page 188by Francis Parkman - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 pages
...leaving only a note upon the table with those lines, " To die is landing on some silent shore, &c." When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor...play till she would be forced to tuck herself up." But a more ridiculous story of him, and which is recorded in heroics by Fielding in his Covent-Garden... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 pages
...leaving only a note upon the table with those lines " To die is landing on some silent shore, &c." When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor...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
...leaving only a note upon the table with those lines, " To die is landing on some silent shore, &c." When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor...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
...leaving only a note upon the table with those lines " To die is landing on some silent shore," &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor...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 - Admirals - 1842 - 478 pages
...leaving a note upon the table, with these lines : — ' To die, is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, ' Poor...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 546 pages
...leaving only a note upon the table with those lines " To die is landing on some silent shore," &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, " Poor...play till she would be forced to tuck herself up!"* 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
...leaving a note upon the table, with these lines : — ' To die, is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, ' Poor...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 pages
...a note on the table with these lines: 'To die is landing on some silent shore,' etc. When Bradiloek was told of it, he only said : ' Poor Fanny ! I always...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... | |
 | Bibliography - 1855 - 458 pages
...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 - Bibliography - 1855 - 462 pages
...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... | |
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