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... better than this , should renard's inclination for making a move be directed towards the usual quarter ; but should he be prevented doing so , or fancy the other side or end , nothing worse . It is , then , next to impossible to catch ...
... better than this , should renard's inclination for making a move be directed towards the usual quarter ; but should he be prevented doing so , or fancy the other side or end , nothing worse . It is , then , next to impossible to catch ...
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... better , however , at times even for themselves , were they not quite so ready to express it , as will be seen by the following anecdote , for the truth of which we can vouch - A gentleman in Kent , one evening in October , ordered his ...
... better , however , at times even for themselves , were they not quite so ready to express it , as will be seen by the following anecdote , for the truth of which we can vouch - A gentleman in Kent , one evening in October , ordered his ...
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... better justification of one of the greatest evils that ever afflicted a country - absenteeism - could not be well conceived ; and if report spoke true , much more had taken place , well calculated to disgust the noble marquis , and thus ...
... better justification of one of the greatest evils that ever afflicted a country - absenteeism - could not be well conceived ; and if report spoke true , much more had taken place , well calculated to disgust the noble marquis , and thus ...
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... better , than fan ; Has the kind heart of woman , the cool hand of man ; Loves her dog and her gun and her racer , before Every wooer who seeks for her silver , her door . She will find you a hare ere the brushwood you beat , And , ere ...
... better , than fan ; Has the kind heart of woman , the cool hand of man ; Loves her dog and her gun and her racer , before Every wooer who seeks for her silver , her door . She will find you a hare ere the brushwood you beat , And , ere ...
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... better evidence can be wanting that each performs his part . A very great convenience and a source of much information have been afforded to the visitors of Cheltenham , by the publication of maps , descriptive of the places of meeting ...
... better evidence can be wanting that each performs his part . A very great convenience and a source of much information have been afforded to the visitors of Cheltenham , by the publication of maps , descriptive of the places of meeting ...
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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.