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... style ; the hounds are confused with running heel , the huntsman has to exercise his best abilities on but an ungrateful task , and the field , in their mortifica- tion , curse the luckless wight who has thrown this damper on their ...
... style ; the hounds are confused with running heel , the huntsman has to exercise his best abilities on but an ungrateful task , and the field , in their mortifica- tion , curse the luckless wight who has thrown this damper on their ...
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... style of doing bu- siness about it . We see but few of the hounds are yet clear of the cover , and , fortunately for them , but few of the field ; a happy pair are , however , as forward as they can well desire , and , from the form in ...
... style of doing bu- siness about it . We see but few of the hounds are yet clear of the cover , and , fortunately for them , but few of the field ; a happy pair are , however , as forward as they can well desire , and , from the form in ...
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... style of shooting suited to the taste of the present day has degenerated into the absurd display of the annual battue ; and even some of the largest and best of the English preserves , and many of the most extensive of the shootings in ...
... style of shooting suited to the taste of the present day has degenerated into the absurd display of the annual battue ; and even some of the largest and best of the English preserves , and many of the most extensive of the shootings in ...
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... style , excepting by some sportsmen who a few years ago established about 20 couples of hounds at St. Omer's , which under the management of Mr. Wood- bridge , so well known as a first - rate performer in Essex , had very tolerable ...
... style , excepting by some sportsmen who a few years ago established about 20 couples of hounds at St. Omer's , which under the management of Mr. Wood- bridge , so well known as a first - rate performer in Essex , had very tolerable ...
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... style of dress , which it must be allowed was unique , was the following . A green coat , with a gold belt round the waist ; hat with a high crown , having a small gold band round it ; her hair powdered , and appearing behind in rather ...
... style of dress , which it must be allowed was unique , was the following . A green coat , with a gold belt round the waist ; hat with a high crown , having a small gold band round it ; her hair powdered , and appearing behind in rather ...
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Seite 423 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Seite 285 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Seite 378 - And gave him back the fair. Thus song could prevail O'er death and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though fate had fast bound her, With Styx nine times round her, Yet music and love were victorious.
Seite 71 - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Seite 423 - Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Seite 40 - Amid a multitude of artless hands, Ruin's sure perquisite! her lawful prize! Some steer aright, but the black blast blows hard, And puffs them wide of hope : with hearts of proof, Full against wind and tide, some win their way; And when strong effort has deserv'd the port, And tugg'd it into view, 'tis won! 'tis lost!
Seite 39 - That shining shield invites the tyrant's spear, As if to damp our elevated aims, And strongly preach humility to man. O how portentous is prosperity ! How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines .' Few years but yield us proof of death's ambition, To cull his victims from the fairest fold, And sheath his shafts in all the pride of life.
Seite 232 - Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Turning...
Seite 210 - Mr. Meynel sometimes bred from brother and sister: this is certainly what may be called a little close; but should they both be very good, and particularly should the same defects not predominate in both, but the perfections of the one, promise to correct' in the produce the imperfections of the other...
Seite 36 - May it please your Royal Highness,— The members of the Jockey Club, deeply regretting your absence from Newmarket, earnestly entreat the affair may be buried in oblivion ; and sincerely hope that the different meetings may again be honoured by your Royal Highness's condescending attendance.