| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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