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" By-and-by the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled up in his cloak ; and his face quite hid in it. — He approached the body, considered it, very attentively, for some time : and then shook his head and sighed out the words, ' cruel necessity... "
Blossoms at Christmas and First Flowers of the New Year - Page 79
1825
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...bondage of an armed faction. — See Clement Walker's History of Independency, P. II. p. 103. — M. hid in it. He approached the body, considered it very...not distinguish any thing of his face, but that by his voice and gait he took him to be Oliver Cromwell *. — The same. * King Charles was murdered on...
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 324 pages
...bondage of an armed faction. — See Clement Walker's History of Independency, P. II. p. 103.— M. hid in it. He approached the body, considered it very...not distinguish any thing of his face, but that by his voice and gait he took him to be Oliver Cromwell *. — The same. * King Charles was murdered on...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...beheaded, Lord Southampton and a friend of his got leave to sit up by the body, in the Banquetting-house at Whitehall. As they were sitting very melancholy there,...not distinguish any thing of his face ; but that, by his voice and gait, he took him to be OLIVER CROMWELL1. It is said that, when King Charles was upon...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...beheaded, Lord Southampton and a friend of his got leave to sit up by the body, in the Banquetting House at Whitehall. As they were sitting very melancholy there,...not distinguish any thing of his face, but that, by his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell. The above Vision of Lord Southampton was probably...
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First flowers, by a literary amateur

First flowers - 1825 - 306 pages
...beheaded, Lord Southampton and a friend of his got leave to sit up by the body, in the Banquetting-house at Whitehall. As they were sitting very melancholy there,...not distinguish any thing of his face ; but that, by his voice and gait, he took him to be OLIVER CBOMWELL.' In the Lansdowne MSS. deposited in the British...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 7

Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...two o'clock in the morning:, they heard the tread ot somebody coming very slowly up stairs. By and hy the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled...Southampton used to say, that he could not distinguish anything of his face, but that, hy his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell." The above...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 189

English essays - 1851 - 950 pages
...approached the body, considered it very attentively for some time, and then shook his head and sighed oat the words, " Cruel necessity!" He then departed in...Southampton used to say that he could not distinguish anything of his face, but that by his voice and gait he took him to be Oliver Cromwell." (MaIbne's...
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Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1858 - 468 pages
...two o'clock in the morning, they heard the tread of somebody coming very slowly up stairs. By-and-by the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled...Southampton used to say, that he could not distinguish anything of his face ; but that by his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell. — P. END...
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Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men. Collected from the ...

Joseph SPENCE - Authors, English - 1858 - 488 pages
...two o'clock in the morning, they heard the tread of somebody coming very slowly up stairs. By-and-by the door opened, and a man entered, very much muffled...Southampton used to say, that he could not distinguish anything of his face ; but that by his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell. — P. END...
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Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1858 - 464 pages
...the tread of somebody coming very slowly up stairs. By-aud-by the door opened, SECTION VII. 1742-43. and a man entered, very much muffled up in his cloak...Southampton used to say, that he could not distinguish anything of his face ; hut that by his voice and gait, he took him to be Oliver Cromwell. — P. END...
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