Coaches

Coaches were originally large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriages with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman and/or one or more postilions. A coach had doors in the sides, with generally a front and a back seat inside and, for the driver, a small, usually elevated seat in front called a box, box seat or coach box. Sourced Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 462. Ne sait on pas où viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes? Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris came from? Honore de Balzac, Physiologie du Mariage (1827). N. Q. S. 5, IV. 499. V. 195. Go, call a coach, and let a coach be called;And let the man who calleth be the caller;And in the calling, let him nothing call,But coach! coach! coach! O for a coach, ye gods! Henry Carey, Chrononhotonthologos, Act II, scene 4, line 46. The gondola of London [a hansom]. Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair, Chapter XXVII. H. Schutz Wilson in Three Paths, claims to have originated the phrase (1759). Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 5, line 23. Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 72. Many carriages he hath dispatched. William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act V, scene 7, line 90. When I am in my coach, which stays for usAt the park gate. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act III, scene 4, line 82. "There beauty half her glory veils,In cabs, those gondolas on wheels." Said to be taken from May Fair, a satire publication (1827). External links Coach (carriage) coach Category:Transport