The New sporting magazine, Volumen161848 |
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... called the Handicap , a great refinement upon the barbarous old custom of putting race horses to their utmost efforts . This system - if carefully worked out - insures an animal , however wretched , its reward . The owner must go on ...
... called the Handicap , a great refinement upon the barbarous old custom of putting race horses to their utmost efforts . This system - if carefully worked out - insures an animal , however wretched , its reward . The owner must go on ...
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... called ; and travelling friars , to levy from the said heathens an annual donation of corn , in return for which , a very rapid evasion from purgatory was promised - peddlers and fiddlers - ladies who told fortunes - in short , of the ...
... called ; and travelling friars , to levy from the said heathens an annual donation of corn , in return for which , a very rapid evasion from purgatory was promised - peddlers and fiddlers - ladies who told fortunes - in short , of the ...
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... called him after breakfast to the presence . He reported that the arrival of divers wild - fowl was immense ; and after some desultory con- versation , announced that he was going to a distillery , up the mountain , for barm for the ...
... called him after breakfast to the presence . He reported that the arrival of divers wild - fowl was immense ; and after some desultory con- versation , announced that he was going to a distillery , up the mountain , for barm for the ...
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... nor myself attended ; for , taking advantage of the freedom given us from five o'clock until the termination of the play , we greatly preferred the Adelphi Theatre , or , as 66 it was then called , the Sans - Pareil 24.
... nor myself attended ; for , taking advantage of the freedom given us from five o'clock until the termination of the play , we greatly preferred the Adelphi Theatre , or , as 66 it was then called , the Sans - Pareil 24.
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... called , was our beverage ; but , probably out of consideration to our weak heads , the worthy purveyor had watered it so much , that it was perfectly spiritless . After devouring and swal- lowing the above condiments and buvables at a ...
... called , was our beverage ; but , probably out of consideration to our weak heads , the worthy purveyor had watered it so much , that it was perfectly spiritless . After devouring and swal- lowing the above condiments and buvables at a ...
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Página 261 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Página 153 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 262 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 395 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the...
Página 120 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 200 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 77 - stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories.
Página 225 - Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
Página 120 - Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Página 120 - Grouped their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain. With boughs that quaked at every breath...