...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...

...went to dinner. . . . She hunts in a chaise with one horse, which she The Queen and the Duchess 79 drives herself, and drives furiously like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod." Windsor's great park and forest must have afforded room and space for some part at least of this course,...

...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...

...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...

...afternoon to Mrs. Vanhomrigh : I wish you had it, sirrahs. I dined gravely with my landlord the Secretary. The Queen was abroad to-day in order to hunt ; but,...furiously, like Jehu, and is a mighty hunter, like Nimrod. Dingley has heard of Nimrod, but not Stella, for Jt is in the Bible. I was to-day at Eton, which is...

...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...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,...

...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...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,...

...principal amusement was 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...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,...

...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...

...to hunt, but finding it disposed to rain she kept in her coach: she hunts in a chaise with one horse and drives furiously like Jehu and is a mighty hunter like Nimrod'/'* 1 The Queen's increasing corpulence led her to adopt a two-wheeled chaise to transport her to and from...