The New sporting magazine, Volumen161848 |
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... close to the Jockey Club Stand , and out of the way of the mere pleasure people . The old adage of " great cry and little wool " was its charac- teristic : the betting was moderate , the noise monstrous . All the Lon- don particulars ...
... close to the Jockey Club Stand , and out of the way of the mere pleasure people . The old adage of " great cry and little wool " was its charac- teristic : the betting was moderate , the noise monstrous . All the Lon- don particulars ...
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... close it . Indeed , every domestic consideration induced a determination on our part to " move on . " Our lady wife announced officially , that her sup- plies would not stand another fortnight . Our butler , Mr. Lewis , re- turned the ...
... close it . Indeed , every domestic consideration induced a determination on our part to " move on . " Our lady wife announced officially , that her sup- plies would not stand another fortnight . Our butler , Mr. Lewis , re- turned the ...
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... close at hand ; investing three- pence of our capital upon a small loaf and a pat of butter , we still found ourselves in possession of half our funds , two - pence of which we ex- pended upon a pint of porter , and with the remaining ...
... close at hand ; investing three- pence of our capital upon a small loaf and a pat of butter , we still found ourselves in possession of half our funds , two - pence of which we ex- pended upon a pint of porter , and with the remaining ...
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... close to Great Oughton . They then returned to the Chase , and after drawing some time found a second fox ; but the hounds soon divided , and after running from fox to fox for about an hour and a half , they broke with one over the open ...
... close to Great Oughton . They then returned to the Chase , and after drawing some time found a second fox ; but the hounds soon divided , and after running from fox to fox for about an hour and a half , they broke with one over the open ...
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... close on their heels . What I did on my first going to Newmarket during that meeting would be , of course , quite uninteresting to my readers ; so we will now fancy ourselves on the finest turf in the United Kingdom for racing purposes ...
... close on their heels . What I did on my first going to Newmarket during that meeting would be , of course , quite uninteresting to my readers ; so we will now fancy ourselves on the finest turf in the United Kingdom for racing purposes ...
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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...