 | Nimrod - Horsemanship - 1863 - 468 pages
...of his day, says of him, that "he was a very fine gentleman, active, and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...accompany a good breeding ; in which his delight was." But there are other than mere personal advantages attending good horsemanship. It is the habitual contempt... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 532 pages
...to literary men caused him to be regarded as "the English Maecenas."* "Nothing," says Clarendon, " could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune (which he sacrificed by his loyalty, and lived for a time in extreme poverty),... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 556 pages
...to literary men caused him to be regarded as "the English Maecenas."* "Nothing," says Clarendon, " could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune (which he sacrificed by his loyalty, and lived for a time in extreme poverty),... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 836 pages
...several years. " He was a very fine Gentleman," says Clarendon, "active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those Qualities of Horsemanship, Dancing,...breeding ; in which his delight was. Besides that, he was amourous in Poetry and Musick, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time ; and nothing could... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 428 pages
...He was a fine gentleman," wrote Clarendon, who knew him well ; "active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...to which he indulged the greatest part of his time. . . . He loved monarchy, as it was the foundation of his own greatness ; and the Church, as it was... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 418 pages
...He was a fine gentleman," wrote Clarendon, who knew him well; " active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...to which he indulged the greatest part of his time. . . . He loved monarchy, as it was the foundation of his own greatness ; and the Church, as it was... | |
 | Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle - Nobility - 1886 - 498 pages
...it with so little circumspection. He was a very fine gentleman, active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the King, when he saw him in distress, and... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 544 pages
...marquis of Newcastle. 381 spection. He was a very fine gentleman, active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...out of those paths of pleasure which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour, and ambition to serve the King when he saw him in distress, and... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...with so little circumspection. He was a very fine gentleman, active, and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the King when he saw him in distress, and... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 440 pages
...was a fine gentleman," wrote Clarendon, who knew him well ; " active and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing,...breeding, in which his delight was. Besides that, he was amoious in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time. . . . He loved monarchy,... | |
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He was a very fine gentleman, active, and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing, which accompany a good breeding; in which his delight was. Besides that he was amorous in poetry and music, to which... 
