post chaise

Reviewing his impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness.

There they hired a post chaise carriage and four horses and set off for London.

At the grand opening ceremony on September 26, Mr R Ferrand drove to the centre of the bridge in a Post Chaise and drank a toast saying: "May the Almighty protect this undertaking, may this bridge stand the test of ages till time is no more." On January 13, 1806, the bridge collapsed and fell into the river.

Hoffmann used to explain the wealth of imaginative figures that offered themselves to him for his stories by the quickly changing pictures and impressions he had received during a journey of some weeks in a post chaise, while still a babe at his mother's breast.

And that is always important, I think, to be clear about what delights you--important, and more easily said than done, to know exactly what you'd do if you didn't have to do "everything else." "Love God and do what you please," says Augustine, following up a lofty imperative with an elusive one, and Johnson boldly responds by saying, in effect, if God would release me from certain obligations and from the nagging consciousness of time, this is what I'd be most pleased to do: I would spend my days driving briskly in a post chaise with a pretty woman.

In the epilogue, composed as a letter to the reader, the author himself offers three explanations of his novel: he defines his work as "classical" (a fairy tale), as baroque (a danse macabre), and as romantic (a post chaise, with the author as coachman).