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... this capital joke , as he thought it , so much improved his temper that , after lunch , he consented to give the cockney another trial . A point is soon made to a stray bird - bang ! down he PLATE II . THE KEEPER'S COTTAGE . 5.
... this capital joke , as he thought it , so much improved his temper that , after lunch , he consented to give the cockney another trial . A point is soon made to a stray bird - bang ! down he PLATE II . THE KEEPER'S COTTAGE . 5.
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... give vent to a rhapsody on the very name , in the following strain : - " Lochs ! we love the word lochs , as applied to those hill - girdled expanses which decorate our native land . Lake is too tame a desig- nation - a shallow epithet ...
... give vent to a rhapsody on the very name , in the following strain : - " Lochs ! we love the word lochs , as applied to those hill - girdled expanses which decorate our native land . Lake is too tame a desig- nation - a shallow epithet ...
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... give two or three hundred guineas for a horse ( an extra fifty being demanded if qualified for a steeple - chase or hunters ' sweepstakes ) , yet it would be next to an impossibility to discover one single person who could be prevailed ...
... give two or three hundred guineas for a horse ( an extra fifty being demanded if qualified for a steeple - chase or hunters ' sweepstakes ) , yet it would be next to an impossibility to discover one single person who could be prevailed ...
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... give an abbreviated account of the curiosities of the place . On approaching the grand entrance , nothing particularly struck the eye excepting a kind of pent - house , which had been built up purposely to protect from the weather a ...
... give an abbreviated account of the curiosities of the place . On approaching the grand entrance , nothing particularly struck the eye excepting a kind of pent - house , which had been built up purposely to protect from the weather a ...
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... give next month a curious hunting scene , in Affghanistan . I shall con- clude at present with the relation of an anecdote , illustrative of Indian manners , of a friend and brother officer of mine , commencing with a tiger hunt , but ...
... give next month a curious hunting scene , in Affghanistan . I shall con- clude at present with the relation of an anecdote , illustrative of Indian manners , of a friend and brother officer of mine , commencing with a tiger hunt , but ...
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admirable amongst amusement animal appearance Bay Middleton beat beautiful betting breed called Captain Chester Cup coach colt commencement Cotherstone course cover delight Derby Dick Turpin distance Doncaster Duke Epsom excellent favour favourite field filly fish fox-hunting gallop gentlemen Gibside give Goodwood ground guineas hand head honour horses hunting huntsman jockey kennel killed lady land Leger legs Leicestershire Liverpool look Lord Lord George Bentinck mare master of hounds meeting miles Milsom morning never Newmarket night noble Oaks occasion owner pack party plate present race race-horses readers remark Riddlesworth riding river scent season side sovs sport sportsman stables stakes Started steeple chase steeple-chase stud Styles Sweepstakes thing Thousand Guineas Stakes tion trainer travelling turf turn wild winner young
Beliebte Passagen
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.