 | William Beckford - 1834 - 274 páginas
...since he has the boldness to prolong his childhood and be happy, in spite of years and conviction. Give him a boar to stab, and a pigeon to shoot at, a battledore and an angling rod, and he is better contented than Solomon in all his glory, and will never discover,... | |
 | Cyrus Redding - 1859 - 420 páginas
...since he has the boldness to prolong his childhood and be happy, in spite of years and conviction. Give him a boar to stab and a pigeon to shoot at, a battledore and an angling rod, and he is better contented than Solomon in all his glory, and will never discover,... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 páginas
...spending weeks in the hunting field with King Ferdinand, of whom Beckford said, 'give him a boar to stab, a pigeon to shoot at, a battledore or an angling rod...is better contented than Solomon in all his glory'. In addition to all his other accomplishments Hamilton was also a crack shot. 'Sensa adulazione avete... | |
 | Matthew Hargraves - 2007 - 244 páginas
...amusement was never practiced by the savages of America." Beckford himself scoffed at the king of Naples: "Give him a boar to stab, and a pigeon to shoot at, a battledore, or an angling-rod and he is better contented than Solomon in all his glory." 14 In Cozens's watercolor, the... | |
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... best of their abilities. His majesty seemed to eye nothing but the end of his nose, which is doubtless a capital object. Though people have imagined him a weak monarch, I beg leave to differ in opinion, since he has the boldness to prolong his childhood... 