 | 1819 - 552 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are only... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are only... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 pages
...at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes. At the top of the room arc ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing...puppet-show, — ' that it would not come that night till seten in the morning, — that is, when there are only 'prentices and old women. We staid, however,... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope dancing between the acts. We had nothing ; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that... | |
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 860 pages
...tallow-candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they arc murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and...acts? We had nothing. They told us, as they would at a puppet- show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 298 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench We' heard nothing! they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes . . . We heard nothing ! They told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not corae that night till seven in the morning ; that is, when there are only apprentices and old women... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 472 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and »tench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of tlie child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat anil stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable beat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing... | |
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The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable. When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one... 
