 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...43, 82, and xxxiii. 144. 4 Horace Walpole, writing on Feb. 2, 1762 (Letters, iii. 481), says : — ' I could send you volumes on the Ghost, and I believe,...Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parReverend Aetat.54.] The Cock-lane Ghost. Reverend Dr. Douglas1, now Bishop of Salisbury, the great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...43, 82, and xxxiii. 144. 4 Horace Walpole, writing on Feb. 2, 1762 (Letters, iii. 481), says : — ' I could send you volumes on the Ghost, and I believe,...Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parReverend Reverend Dr. Douglas', now Bishop of Salisbury, the great detector of impostures ; who... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on fool out of revenge, the methodists have adopted it, and the whole town of London think of nothing... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this which goes on without saving the least appearances.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...riding in a carriage with her father. [Ed.] amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving ' the least... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...ghost, a piece of imposture, arising as amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island 1 I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...my Lord Dartmouth, by the ordinary of Newgate, its • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu remained at Venice till the death of Mr. Wortley in this year ; when... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe...my Lord Dartmouth, by the ordinary of Newgate, its • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu remained at Venice till the death of Mr. Wortley in this year ; when... | |
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I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe if I were to stay a little, I might send its life, dedicated to my lord Dartmouth, by the ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge, the methodists... 
