The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach; she hunts in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod. The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Página 35editado por - 1844Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 páginas
...wish you had it sirrahs : I dined gravely with my landlord the secretary. The queen was abroad to day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain...furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, for- it is in the Bible. I was to day at Eaton, which... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 páginas
...wish you had it sirrahs : I dined gravely with my landlord the secretary. The queen was abroad to day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain...furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, for it is in the Bible. I was to day at Eaton, which is... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 páginas
...dined gravely with my landlord the secretary. The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but rinding it disposed to rain she kept in her coach : she hunts...furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, for it is in the Bible. I was to-day at Eaton, which is... | |
| 1868 - 712 páginas
...her coach. She hunts in a chaise, with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously liko Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod." Again,...among scurvy company; but the Queen was hunting the stag till four this afternoon, and she drove in her chaise above forty miles, and it was five before... | |
| 510 páginas
...old, when he had but one sweat) fur threv hundred guiaras. Л guinea a leap and trial, and u ¿hilling the man." Anne was devoted to the chase; and in a...drives furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Ninirod." Again, in another letter, the dean writes:—"1 dined to-day with the gentlemen ushers, among... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 532 páginas
...derived from her unhappy father. On the 31st of July, 1711, Swift writes to Stella from Windsor : — " The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but...Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod." Again, Swift writes to Stella on the 7th of the following month : — "I dined to-day with the gentlemen Ushers,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 páginas
...derived from her unhappy father. On the 31st of July, 1711, Swift writes to Stella from Windsor : — " The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but...Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod." Again, Swift writes to Stella on the 7th of the following month : — "I dined to-day with the gentlemen Ushers,... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 812 páginas
...fortress-palace into an incongruous Versailles. Anne here spent her summer months — sometimes " hunting in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu," — and sometimes, according to the same authority, the Dean of St. Patrick, having a drawing-room, " but so... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 518 páginas
...rather restored, the chase. 1 " The queen was abroad to-day to hunt," says Swift in his journal, * " but finding it disposed to rain she kept in her coach;...furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod." A week afterwards the queen hunted the stag through the meridian heat, till four in the afternoon ;... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 502 páginas
...restored, the chase.1 " The queen was abroad to-day to hunt," says Swift in his journal,2 " but rinding it disposed to rain she kept in her coach ; she hunts...furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod." A week afterwards the queen hunted the stag through the meridian heat, till four in the afternoon ;... | |
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