The New sporting magazine, 25. köide1853 |
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... hold our head - quarters , and are considered , I rather flatter myself , what the purser's wife in Peter Simple " calls the Smiths of London " - " quite the topping people of the place . She still crosses her letters word for word ...
... hold our head - quarters , and are considered , I rather flatter myself , what the purser's wife in Peter Simple " calls the Smiths of London " - " quite the topping people of the place . She still crosses her letters word for word ...
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... hold the latter class of literature in little esteem . That , however , is matter of opinion ; for it is not necessary that slang or inelegant language should form part of the sportsman's vocabulary . There are technical terms made use ...
... hold the latter class of literature in little esteem . That , however , is matter of opinion ; for it is not necessary that slang or inelegant language should form part of the sportsman's vocabulary . There are technical terms made use ...
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... hold of something . " " New nippers on below ; more of them ; and keep clear of the messenger . Try again , this time a good one . Hurrah , men ! don't mind . Heave now - now together - rally , heave , hurrah ! " and away they shoved ...
... hold of something . " " New nippers on below ; more of them ; and keep clear of the messenger . Try again , this time a good one . Hurrah , men ! don't mind . Heave now - now together - rally , heave , hurrah ! " and away they shoved ...
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... hold your horse nor your hat on , and cannot see twenty yards before your nose . Presently , after a vain endeavour to find your way out of your difficulties , you see the hounds slopping their way down to what you call the reservoir ...
... hold your horse nor your hat on , and cannot see twenty yards before your nose . Presently , after a vain endeavour to find your way out of your difficulties , you see the hounds slopping their way down to what you call the reservoir ...
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... hold of that gentleman on a soft south - westerly morn- ing , when the ground permits of riding , we shall have a good run . If it happens to blow east , with a moderately heavy atmosphere , look out for squalls ; few of us will see the ...
... hold of that gentleman on a soft south - westerly morn- ing , when the ground permits of riding , we shall have a good run . If it happens to blow east , with a moderately heavy atmosphere , look out for squalls ; few of us will see the ...
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amusement animal appeared Ascot bay horse Bay Middleton beat better Birdcatcher boar Bolderwood brown Captain chase Cheshire chesnut Chester Cup Club colt Coolhurst course cover Curragh Danebury Derby Doncaster Duke Duke of Rutland's England English foxhounds fancy favour favourite fence field filly forest fox-hunting foxhounds gentleman give ground hand Handicap hares head honour horse hounds hour hunter hunting huntsman jockey Joe Miller kennel killed Lady land Leger legs Leicestershire look Lord mares master masters of hounds meeting miles morning never Newmarket pace pack piqueurs Plate present Pytchley Quorn race race-horses ride scent season side Sittingbourne sovs sport sportsman stable Stakes started Tanad thing turf Turfman turn Umbriel untried weather whip wind winner Wood Yacht young
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Page 264 - that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century.
Page 268 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 76 - Heaven derive their light. These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Page 179 - Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Page 14 - Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon, and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain!
Page 157 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Page 94 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 183 - How melts my beating heart ! as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below ! The Chase.
Page 76 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be! And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow: Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee; Hot Shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt — as now.