 | Gordon Crosse - Church history - 1912 - 702 pages
...Venetian ambassador, in a secret despatch of 1519, describes also Henry's ' extravagant fondness for tennis — at which game it is the prettiest thing...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture.' The story that Henry was intended by his father for high ecclesiastical office and... | |
 | A.F. Pollard - 1913 - 490 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." The change from the cold suspicious Henry VII. to such a king as this was inevitably... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Statesmen - 1917 - 356 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...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.' The Venetian's panegyric... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 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,...He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is we 199 prettiest thing in the world to see him pliy, his fair skin glowing through a skirt of the finest... | |
 | Ernest Phillip Alphonse Law, Ernest Law - Palaces - 1924 - 304 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." He had tennis slippers or shoes and drawers made especially for wearing when he played,... | |
 | Albert Frederick Pollard - Great Britain - 1925 - 492 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...world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through & shirt of the finest texture." The change from the cold suspicious Henry VII. to such a king as this... | |
 | Charles Harold Williams - Great Britain - 1925 - 312 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,...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest testure. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount occasionally, it is said, of from... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 878 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...another, and before he gets home they are all exhausted." On account of his handsome person, his hearty, generous manners, his fondness for the services of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Archives - 1867 - 1020 pages
...tiring eight or ten horses, which are stationed beforehand along the line of country be means to take. Before he gets home they are all exhausted. He is...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount, occasionally, it is said, of from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 846 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. Ho is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play,... | |
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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... 
