 | John Sherren Brewer - Great Britain - 1884 - 646 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take ; and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture."1 To the same purport is an earlier account written in 1515 by the Venetian Pasqualigo.... | |
 | 1884 - 600 pages
...masses daily when he hunts, and sometimes five on other days. He is very fond of hunting. . . . and extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play.' In these modern days no English king appears in a blacker character than the eighth Henry, and yet... | |
 | John Philip Hore - Great Britain - 1885 - 386 pages
...beforehand along the line of country he meant to take. He was also fond of tennis, at which game it was the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount, occasionally, it was said, of from... | |
 | Aubrey Lackington Moore - England - 1890 - 590 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take ; and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." Even as late as the year 1530, when the king was nearly forty, and age and indulgence... | |
 | William Sumner Appleton - Medalists - 1890 - 418 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he expects to take, and when one is tired he mounts another,...him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture. " He is affable, gracious ; harms no one; does not covet his neighbor's goods, and... | |
 | Ernest Law - Great Britain - 1890 - 496 pages
...gallery underneath the pent-house was usually crowded, and Giustinian, who had watched him, says : — " He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture."1 He had tennis slippers or shoes and drawers made especially for wearing when he played,... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1895 - 204 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the, line of country he means to take, and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambles with the French hostages, to the amount occasionally, it is said of from... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania. Department of History - Reformation - 1897 - 174 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take, and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambles with the French hostages, to the amount occasionally, it is said of from... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - English prose literature - 1897 - 370 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he expects to take, and when one is tired he mounts another,...him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture. " He is affable, gracious ; harms no one ; does not covet his neighbor's goods, and... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - English prose literature - 1897 - 400 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he expects to take, and when one is tired he mounts another,...him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture. " He is affable, gracious ; harms no one ; does not covet his neighbor's goods, and... | |
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He is very fond of hunting, and never takes his diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take, and when one is tired he mounts another, and before he gets home they... 
