The New sporting magazine, 25. köide1853 |
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... turns . " Lucretius was a man of the world ...... Thus seasonably selecting the principle with which we are about to deal- " ab ovo ” - we will follow it ( no , Mr. Reader - not " ad malum ” ) into the maturity of its turf career ...
... turns . " Lucretius was a man of the world ...... Thus seasonably selecting the principle with which we are about to deal- " ab ovo ” - we will follow it ( no , Mr. Reader - not " ad malum ” ) into the maturity of its turf career ...
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... turn back the wheel- had I the privilege of again living over those golden days , which shall return no more- -in no single instance should I act exactly as I have done ; there has not been one occasion on which I should commit the same ...
... turn back the wheel- had I the privilege of again living over those golden days , which shall return no more- -in no single instance should I act exactly as I have done ; there has not been one occasion on which I should commit the same ...
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... turn at them all - and if this be what is meant by sowing wild oats , " I can only say that in my case the crop has failed to pay the expenses of cultivation . My trip into the west of England , though itself the accident of an accident ...
... turn at them all - and if this be what is meant by sowing wild oats , " I can only say that in my case the crop has failed to pay the expenses of cultivation . My trip into the west of England , though itself the accident of an accident ...
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... turn up his nose at black broth ! But to return to my moralizing reflections on that position in society which I have failed to attain that very youth who , because I have not the honour of his acquaintance , thinks it right to gaze ...
... turn up his nose at black broth ! But to return to my moralizing reflections on that position in society which I have failed to attain that very youth who , because I have not the honour of his acquaintance , thinks it right to gaze ...
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... turns of mind revel in novels ; many delight in sporting subjects . Lovers of poetry and fiction may possibly hold the latter class of literature in little esteem . That , however , is matter of opinion ; for it is not necessary that ...
... turns of mind revel in novels ; many delight in sporting subjects . Lovers of poetry and fiction may possibly hold the latter class of literature in little esteem . That , however , is matter of opinion ; for it is not necessary that ...
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Popular passages
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.