 | 1819 - 424 Seiten
...Edinburgh Review. Cobbett and Junius together would have made a Cavanagh. He was the best up•hill player in the world ; even when his adversary was...play was, that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only nobody... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 Seiten
...the Edinburgh Review. Cobbett and Junius together would have made a Cavanagh. He was the best up-hill player in the world ; even when his adversary was...play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only nobody... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do. He was the best up-hill player In the world; even •when his adversary was...The only peculiarity of his play was that he never volkyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them.... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do. He was the best up-hill player In the world; even when his adversary was fourteen,...play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only no... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even aflect to do. He was the best up-hill player In the world ; even when his adversary was...play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only no... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than anyone else could even affect to do. He was the best iiji-/iil! player In the world; even when his adversary was fourteen,...The only peculiarity of his play was that he never voUcyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them.... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 Seiten
...the Edinburgh Review. Cobbett and Junius together would have made a Cavanagh. He was the best up-hill player in the world ; even when his adversary was...rose an inch from the ground he never missed having them. There was not only nobody equal, but nobody second to him. It is supposed that he could give... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do. He was the best up-hill player In the world ; even when his adversary was...play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only no... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do. He was the best np-hill player In the world ; even when his adversary was...play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only no... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 Seiten
...what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do. He was the best up-hill -note hop ; but if they rose an inch from the ground, he never missed having them. There was not only no... | |
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He was the best up-hill player in the world; even when his adversary was fourteen, he would play on the same or better, and as he never flung away the game through carelessness and conceit, he never gave it up through laziness or want of heart. The only... 
