 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pages
...sometimes striving by chicanery xxix. fo perpiex or rebut the proofs against him — some174.6. times indulging in ridiculous jests. " I did not " think...did at so melancholy a spectacle, " but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery " took off all edge of compassion. " * When after his sentence he was... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle, but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle, but tyranny and villainy wound up by buffoonery took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...short and bended, that, if beheaded, he should be struck on the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all the edge of concern."* He ate heartily during his whole confinement, even the morning of his... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pages
...arms, when a child, about the parks of Kensington and Hampton Court — sometimes striving by chicanery to perplex or rebut the proofs against him — sometimes indulging in ridiculous jests. " 1 did not think it possible, " says Horace Walpole, " to feel so little as I did at so melancholy... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 594 pages
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...but tyranny and villany wound up by buffoonery took oft" all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini seemed a great deal shocked,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle,...but tyranny and villany wound up by buffoonery took off' all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck ; Niccolini seemed a great deal shocked,... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...by a death he richly deserved for many misdeeds. Walpole well said : " I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all the edge of concern." Eighteen persons were killed by the fall of a scaffold at his execution.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - England - 1846 - 346 pages
...ridiculously, joking, and making every body laugh even at the sentence. I did not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck." During the trial, Lord Lovat endeavoured... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...celebrated Lord Mansfield, f Sir Dudley Ryder, afterwards Lord Chief Justice. not think it possible to feel so little as I did at so melancholy a spectacle...tyranny and villany, wound up by buffoonery, took off all edge of concern. The foreigners were much struck." This extraordinary man, notwithstanding... | |
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Adieu! my lords, we shall never meet again in the same place.'"' He says he will be hanged ; for that his neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible... 
