 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 274 pàgines
...of shoulders, and an elevation of eyebrows, as emphatic as the exclamation. England has been called the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women : it may be added that it is the heaven of the Jews,—alas, they have no other heaven to expect \... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 pàgines
...we shall select only the short paragraphs relating to England : " England, in general, is said to be the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women. an apple with a red side. Norfolk wiles (for crafty litigiousness :) Essex stiles, (so many as make... | |
 | 1825 - 390 pàgines
...shall solicit only the short paragraphs relating to England : " England, in general, is said to be the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women. an apple with a red side. Norfolk wiles (for crafty litigiousness :) Essex stiles, (so many as make... | |
 | 1825 - 392 pàgines
...we shall select only the short paragraphs relating to England : " England, in general, is said to be the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women. " The Londoners pronounce woe to him, that buys a horse in Smithfield, that takes a servant in Paul's... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pàgines
...shall solicit only the short paragraphs relating to England : , " England, in general, is said to be the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women. " The Londoners pronounce woe to him, that buys a horse in Smithfield, that takes a servant in Paul's... | |
 | 1836 - 440 pàgines
...of shoulders, and an elevation of eyebrows, as empliatic as the exclamation. England has been called the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants and the paradise of women: it may be added that it is the heaven of the Jews, — alas ! they have no other heaven to expect !... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 726 pàgines
...hitherto unprofitable." This was written under James I., (p. 178). 499. " England in general is said to be the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women " ( Morys'm's Itinerary, iii. 53) ; see also p. 149, where this is explained to mean that Englishmen... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 730 pàgines
...well-known proverb, which was started among foreigners as early as the days of Queen Elizabeth, ' England is the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the paradise of women.' Because, says Moryson, who gives us so much valuable information about the state of England at the... | |
 | Fynes Moryson - 1908 - 554 pàgines
...without drawing bit, neither sparing their horses nor themselves, whence is the Proverb, that England is the Hell of Horses, the Purgatory of Servants, and the Paradise of Women ; because they ride Horses without measure, and use their Servants imperiously, and their Women obsequiously.... | |
 | Joan Parkes - 1925 - 446 pàgines
...to distinguish the nation, is indicated in a proverb of Italian origin then prevalent : ' England is the Hell of Horses, the Purgatory of Servants, and the Paradise of Women '. As all writers dilate upon the superior merits of English horses — their gentle ambling pace,... | |
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the hell of horses, the purgatory of servants, and the 'paradise of women,' from the two former having everything to do, and the latter nothing. 
