| 1849 - 742 páginas
...find Swift again recurring to the effect of cordiality being created by identity of suffering — " I was this morning with poor Lady Kerry, who is much worse in her head than I. She sends me bottles of her bitter, and we are so fond of oue another, because our ailments are the same. Do you... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 páginas
...find Swift again recurring to the effect of cordiality being created by identity of suffering — " I was this morning with poor Lady Kerry, who is much worse in her head than I. She sends me bottles of her bitter, and we are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same. Do you... | |
| 1926 - 538 páginas
...afterwards the art of skating was still comparatively unknown. In January, 1711, he wrote : Delicate walking weather, and the Canal and Rosamond's Pond full of the rabble, sliding, and with skates if yon know what that is. Were the earliest skates imported, and of what materials were they made? J.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...and dined with Ford. We are here in as smart a frost for the time as I have seen ; delicate walking weather, and the Canal and Rosamond's Pond full of...water freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed. February 1. I was this mnrning with poor lady Kerry, who is much worse in her head than I. She sends... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 678 páginas
...SlJan., 1710-11. — We are here in as smart a frost for the time as I have seen ; delicate walking weather, and the canal and Rosamond's Pond full of...sliding, and with skates, if you know what those are.'— Swift's Journal to Stella. Charles II. threw several ponds that existed separately in his day into... | |
| New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 1862 - 506 páginas
...they stop on the ice ; went home." Swift, in his journal, in January, 1711, says: "Delicate walking weather, and the canal and Rosamond's Pond full of the rabble sliding, and with skaits, if you know what that is." The rude beginnings of the art are thus recorded by the historian... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 páginas
...Stella Jan. 31, 17)? : " We are here in as smart a frost for the time as I have seen ; delicate walking weather. and the Canal and Rosamond's Pond full of the rabble sliding, and with skaits, if you know what those are." See a print- of this pond in Old England, engraving No. 2,397.... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 páginas
...ista feres. Arid this sort of fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind to our like-feeling fellows. " I was this morning with poor Lady Kerry, who is much worse in her head than I," writes Swift, in the Journal to Stella (Feb. i, 1711): "She sends me bottles of her bitter, and we... | |
| John Forster - 1875 - 530 páginas
...Secretary to dine with Ford. For the time they were in as smart a frost as he had seen, delicate walking weather, and ' the canal and Rosamond's Pond full...Patrick's bird's water freezes in the gallipot and his own hands in bed. He was next morning with poor Lady Kerry, whom he found much worse in her head... | |
| John Forster - 1875 - 524 páginas
...Secretary to dine with Ford. For the time they were in as smart a frost as he had seen, delicate walking weather, and ' the canal and Rosamond's Pond full...are.' Patrick's bird's water freezes in the gallipot aud his own hands in bed. He was next morning with poor Lady Kerry, whom he found much worse in her... | |
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