 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 Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin - Page 101by Jonathan Swift - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 424 pages
...words his opinion of Arbuthnot, as " a perfectly honest man." It was a eulogy Swift bestowed on few. drives herself, and drives furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod." Elsewhere he gives a picture of an autumn day's employment at the Court. They formed " a noble caravan... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 550 pages
...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...which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like 1 Other editions print " Duke Hamik6n," a ridiculous form. It is true that Swift always writes "Duke... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1900 - 298 pages
...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...which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like 1 Other editions print " Duke Hamilton," a ridiculous form. It is true that Swift always writes "Duke... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 710 pages
...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,...Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, for Jt is in the Bible. I was to-day at Eton, which is but just cross the bridge, to see my Lord Kerry's... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1901 - 682 pages
...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,...Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, forkit is in the Bible. I was to-day at Eton, which is but just cross the bridge, to see my Lord Kerry's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 402 pages
...is called a " Benefit," on the stage, the custom being unknown before the reign of James the Second. rain, she kept in her coach. She hunts in a chaise...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 - 1901 - 404 pages
...is called a " Benefit," on the stage, the custom being unknown before the reign of James the Second. rain, she kept in her coach. She hunts in a chaise...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... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Europe - 1903 - 482 pages
...hunting. On the 3 ist of July 1711 Swift writes to Stella from Windsor : " 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." On the 7th of the following month Swift writes to Stella : " I dined to-day with the gentlemen Ushers,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 582 pages
...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...which she drives herself, and drives furiously, like 1 Other editions print " Duke Hamilton," a ridiculous form. It is true that Swift always writes "Duke... | |
 | James Maclehose - Scotland - 1913 - 502 pages
...little but hearsay to repeat about the Queen. Yet she too passes over the stage — going a-hunting in a chaise with one horse, which she drives herself,...furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod.' Swift wrote simply for his two friends as Pepys wrote simply for himself, and there were many autobiographers... | |
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