The New sporting magazine, 25. köide1853 |
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... ( less rates and taxes ) , a wife , and a large small family , with a fourteen - miles ' walk , summer and winter , backwards and forwards , to evening service . And last but surely not least in this catalogue of our insular moral ...
... ( less rates and taxes ) , a wife , and a large small family , with a fourteen - miles ' walk , summer and winter , backwards and forwards , to evening service . And last but surely not least in this catalogue of our insular moral ...
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... less to carry , did the same , as you may imagine , by the Great Ebor Handicap . It was said this was accomplished on sufferance of one of her own year ..... My notion is that it was Weathergage was on sufferance from the Clothworker ...
... less to carry , did the same , as you may imagine , by the Great Ebor Handicap . It was said this was accomplished on sufferance of one of her own year ..... My notion is that it was Weathergage was on sufferance from the Clothworker ...
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... less unaccountable than those of impetuous impulsive boyhood , I leave to the attentive observer of human nature to determine . All I know is , that like the retrospective octogenarian , who summed up his whole reflections on existence ...
... less unaccountable than those of impetuous impulsive boyhood , I leave to the attentive observer of human nature to determine . All I know is , that like the retrospective octogenarian , who summed up his whole reflections on existence ...
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... less fre- quent ; and the numerous public duties which devolved upon him must doubtless very often have prevented his attendance at the covert side . The annual meeting of the Bramshill hounds at Strathfieldsaye on the day after the ...
... less fre- quent ; and the numerous public duties which devolved upon him must doubtless very often have prevented his attendance at the covert side . The annual meeting of the Bramshill hounds at Strathfieldsaye on the day after the ...
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... less riotous in their work , steadier at their game , and after a long rest required no severity to maintain the discipline with which they had once been impressed . The pointers were of the old Spanish breed , with long heads and deep ...
... less riotous in their work , steadier at their game , and after a long rest required no severity to maintain the discipline with which they had once been impressed . The pointers were of the old Spanish breed , with long heads and deep ...
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Page 167 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
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.