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" 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. "
Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of ... - Page 331
by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1848 - 462 pages
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 15

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 pages
...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 she kept in her coach...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...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 15

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 pages
...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 she kept in her coach...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...
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Journal to Stella (Letter I-XXXVII)

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...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 she kept in her coach:...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...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Journal to Stella (Letter I-XXXVII)

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...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...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 56

1868 - 710 pages
...Stella, dated July 31st, 171 L, the following appears: "The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt ; but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously liko Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod." Again, in another letter, the Dean writes : " I dined...
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The Sportsman

510 pages
...Stella, dated 31st July, 1711, the following appears—" The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt; but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....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...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 11

John William Carleton - 1844 - 516 pages
...Stella, dated 31st July, 1711, the following appears — " The queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt; but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod." Again, in another letter, the dean writes: — "I dined to-day with the gentlemen ushers, among scurvy...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.

John William Carleton - 1868 - 724 pages
...Stella, dated July 31st, 1711, the following appears: " The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt ; but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....horse, which she drives herself, and drives furiously liko Jehu, and i« a mighty hunter, like Nirnrod." Again, in another letter, the Dean writes : '' I...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...July, 1711, Swift writes to Stella from Windsor : — " The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....furiously, like 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...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 532 pages
...July, 1711, Swift writes to Stella from Windsor : — " The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain, she kept in her coach....furiously, like 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...
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