 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 744 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." When we take all these facts into consideration, when we remember also that ere long... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 354 pages
...1519, the Venetian ambassador, who knew him intimately, says in his Report to the Senate, that he was extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing to see him piny, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. His elder brother Arthur... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 356 pages
...1519, the Venetian ambassador, who knew him intimately, says in his Report to the Senate, that he was extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. His elder brother Arthur... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1906 - 684 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...him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture. He gambles with the French hostages, to the amount occasionally, it is said, of from... | |
 | Frederick Morgan Padelford - English poetry - 1907 - 242 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he may mean to take, and when one is tired, he mounts another, and before he gets home they are all exhausted.' Cf. also Index to Hall's Chronicle : just, tourney. 6. Cf. Strutt, Sports and Past1mes (London, 1801)... | |
 | Frederick Morgan Padelford - English poetry - 1907 - 246 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he may mean to take, and when one is tired, he mounts another, and before he gets home they arc all exhausted.' Cf. also Index to Hall's Chronicle : just, tourney. 6. Cf. Strutt, Sports and Pastsmes... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1908 - 402 pages
...extremely fond of hunting, never taking his diversion without tiring eight or ten horses. He was devoted to tennis," at which game "it is the prettiest thing...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." He delighted to set off his stately form in rich attire, glittering with jewels and... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas, Charles Larcom Graves, George Morrow - History - 1908 - 120 pages
...general consent the first athlete within the four seas, and Signor Giustiniani has left it on record that it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play tennis. On one occasion when he was annoyed with Cardinal Wolsey he suddenly seized him by the sinister... | |
 | Carlos Barron Lumsden - Great Britain - 1910 - 320 pages
...beforehand along the line of country he was 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 his shirt of the finest texture ; he gambled with the French hostages, to the amount occasionally it... | |
 | Alice Minerva Atkinson - Europe - 1912 - 452 pages
...allowed his own to grow, and as it is of an auburn tint, he now has a beard that looks 3'9 like gold. He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is...him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of finest texture." Another ambassador declared him to be the handsomest potentate he had ever set eyes... | |
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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... 
