Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Band 5

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Tresham Gilbey
Vinton, 1863

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Seite 196 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Seite 20 - Pythagoras, and understood that the square of the hypothenuse was equal to the squares of the other two sides of a rightangled triangle.
Seite 268 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 252 - I gave her the contents of both barrels, which tumbled her over, and made her relinquish her prey, but did not prove mortal, for in the twinkling of an eye she recovered her feet, and sprung towards us, uttering a savage roar, when the Poligars, who, on seeing the game, had forcibly broken away from the man who held them, dashed forward, and, scared by their sudden appearance, she swerved, raised her head, and looked round for a line of retreat ; which action gave Ponto a chance, and the gallant...
Seite 125 - The having a freehold estate of 1001. per annum; there being fifty times the property required to enable a man to kill a partridge, as to vote for a knight of the shire: 2.
Seite 252 - ... the trail. A very few turns served to satisfy us both on this point, for we almost immediately came upon the pugs of what appeared to be a family of either panthers or leopards, which we were steadily following up, when suddenly a female panther, with a short low growl, pounced upon the poor Puarhee dog, breaking his back with a blow from her muscular paw, and carrying him off as a cat would a mouse. At this moment my view of the transaction was partially obstructed by an intervening bush ; but...
Seite 300 - Pompous incumbrance! A magnificence Useless, vexatious! For the wily fox, Safe in the increasing number of his foes, Kens well the great advantage: slinks behind And slily creeps through the same beaten track, And hunts them step by step; then views escaped With inward ecstasy, the panting throng In their own footsteps puzzled, foiled and lost.
Seite 355 - When with his lively ray the potent sun Has pierced the streams and roused the finny race, Then, issuing cheerful, to thy sport repair; Chief should the western breezes curling play, And light o'er ether bear the shadowy clouds. High to their fount, this day, amid the hills And woodlands warbling round, trace up the brooks; The next, pursue their...
Seite 240 - ... cunning carpenter, To make a chest for mee. My bride laces of silk Bestowd, for maidens meet, May fitly serve, when I am dead. To tye my hands and feet. And thou, my lover true, My husband and my friend. Let me intreat thee here to staye. Until my life doth end. Now leave to talk of love, And humblye on your knee, Direct your prayers unto God : But mourn no more for mee. In love as we have livde, In love let us depart ; And I, in token of my love, Do kiss thee with my heart. 0 staunch those bootless...
Seite 249 - May, the hen laying from ten to fifteen eggs of a light-blue colour. The chickore very much resembles the ordinary French partridge, the colours being rather brighter and the beak red. They are very hard to put up without dogs, being always on the run. After a tramp of about four hours, during which time our people were laden with small game, we arrived at the Ghuriali Hills, and skirting their...

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