 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 528 páginas
...century afterward the art was still comparatively unknown. In January, 1711, he writes: "Delicate walking weather, and the canal and Rosamond's Pond full of...rabble, sliding, and with skates, if you know what that is." In the time of the Commonwealth, when the ground to the north of St. James's Park consisted... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 524 páginas
...century afterward the art was still comparatively unknown. In January, 1711, he writes: "Delicate walking weather, and the canal and Rosamond's Pond full of...rabble, sliding, and with skates, if you know what that is." In the time of the Commonwealth, when the ground to the north of St. James's Park consisted... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 424 páginas
...was a favourite skating ground. ' The Canal and Rosamond's Pond,' says Swift, in January, 1711, are 'full of the rabble sliding and with skates, if you...water freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed.' Patrick was Swift's ' very Irish footman,' and the bird was a linnet he had bought for Mrs. Dingley... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 582 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...freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed. Feb. i. I was this morning with poor Lady Kerry, who is much worse in her head than I. She sends me bottles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1909 - 132 páginas
...Restoration dramatists. Dean Swift, in his Journal to Stella, speaks of it being frozen over, and ' full of the rabble sliding, and with skates, if you know what those are '. It was drained and filled up in 1770, and the name was transferred to another pond in the Green... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 470 páginas
...stir out till one. 31. 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...freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed. Feb. i. I walked plaguey carefully, for fear of sliding against my will. 4. Our frost holds like a dragon.... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 1106 páginas
...stir out till one. 31. 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...freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed. Feb. i. I walked plaguey carefully, for fear of sliding against my will. 4. Our frost holds like a dragon.... | |
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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 skates, if you know what those are. 
