. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. 32 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS ^•^ r-i ^T^!'^^ /rT»t" most delightful letters are dated from there—letters in which he gives charming sketches of English country life in the last century, and paints the old house for us, with its haunted staircase, secret chambers, formal gardens, and the raised terrace behind it where Arabella must often have walked. Bucklebury, in the immediate neighbourhood, is associated with even greater names. This was the country seat of Bolingbroke the
. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. 32 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS ^•^ r-i ^T^!'^^ /rT»t" most delightful letters are dated from there—letters in which he gives charming sketches of English country life in the last century, and paints the old house for us, with its haunted staircase, secret chambers, formal gardens, and the raised terrace behind it where Arabella must often have walked. Bucklebury, in the immediate neighbourhood, is associated with even greater names. This was the country seat of Bolingbroke the magnificent. Here great statesman the who was half Horace rr^^^[^^l and half the elder Pitt, /^ forgot the distractions yiKS^'^ ^^'i - °^ political intrigue in }%}f^y f/^ the smiles of Bur- ^^ ^!^ / ^-r^ gundy and the calm pleasures of country life. Bucklebury was his Sabine farm. Here he played the fancy farmer and gathered round him the finest intellects of the day. Swift was a constant visitor, and in a very delightful letter to Stella, he has drawn Mr. Secretary for us as the perfect country gentleman, smoking his tobacco with one or two neighbours inquiring after the wheat in such a field, visiting his hounds and calling them all by their names, he and his wife showing Swift up to his bedroom just in the country fashion. " His house," writes the author of " Gulliver/' " is just in the midst of 3,000/. a year he had by his lady, who is descended from Jack of Newbury, of. fieaJe The Old Angel at Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941; Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864-1949. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
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