Arthur O'Leary; His wanderings and ponderings in many lands
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...shall we have sense enough to go without Sneyders and Ostade? and when will Flemings be satisfied to ride on beasts which befit them--strong of limb, slow of gait, dull of temper, and not ove...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...shall we have sense enough to go without Sneyders and Ostade? and when will Flemings be satisfied to ride on beasts which befit them--strong of limb, slow of gait, dull of temper, and not over-fastidious in feeding; whose parentage has had no registry, and whose blood-relations never were chronicled? Truly, England is the land of "turn out." All the foreign imitations of it are most ludicrous, from Prince Max of Bavaria, who brought back with him to Munich a lord-mayor's coach, gilding, emblazonry, wigs, and all, as the true type of a London equipage--down to those strange, merry-andrew figures, in orange plush breeches and sky-blue frocks, that one sees galloping after their masters along the Champs Elys�es, like insane comets taking an airing on horseback. The whole thing is absurd: they cannot accomplish it, do what they will--there's no success in the endeavour. It is like our miserable failures to get up a petit diner or a soir�e. If then, French, Italians, and Germans, fail so lamentably, only think, I beseech you, of Flemings--imagine Belgium d che'ual.' The author of Hudibras discovered years ago that these people were fish--that their land life was a little bit of distraction they permitted themselves to take from" time to time; but that their real element was a dyke or a canal.-What would he have said, if he saw them on horseback? "G iI Now, I am free to confess that few men haveless hope to win the world by deeds of horsenianship than'Arthii._r O'Leary. I have ever looked upon it as a kind of presumption in me to get into the saddle. I have regarded my taking the reins as a species of duplicity on my part---a tacit assumption that I had any sort of control over the beast; I have appeared t...
Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
Binding | Paperback (61 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 170 |
ISBN-10 | 1231524561 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1231524565 |
Publication Date | 05/12/2012 |
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