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... turned over to some sporting man about town as a cover hack for five - and - twenty pounds . 66 Whatever may be the fate of this state of things , that racing is des- tined to see change and improvement , slow but sure , I cannot doubt ...
... turned over to some sporting man about town as a cover hack for five - and - twenty pounds . 66 Whatever may be the fate of this state of things , that racing is des- tined to see change and improvement , slow but sure , I cannot doubt ...
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... turning the stream in another direction . Man is a gaming animal : it is his instinct as much as eat- ing and drinking ; the only distinction being , that the appetite for play is the strongest . As soon as roulette and rouge et noir ...
... turning the stream in another direction . Man is a gaming animal : it is his instinct as much as eat- ing and drinking ; the only distinction being , that the appetite for play is the strongest . As soon as roulette and rouge et noir ...
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... turned to more gracious purpose For a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs . , for three - year - olds , Swinley Course , three went ; whereof Glendower was much the best . The judge gave him the race by three lengths : good horses pay : that's worth ...
... turned to more gracious purpose For a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs . , for three - year - olds , Swinley Course , three went ; whereof Glendower was much the best . The judge gave him the race by three lengths : good horses pay : that's worth ...
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... turned the effective strength of his sorely reduced bin , at five bottles . The last wedder of half a score was skinned , and hanging in the larder . The kitchen couples , that six months before had groaned under a load of bacon and ...
... turned the effective strength of his sorely reduced bin , at five bottles . The last wedder of half a score was skinned , and hanging in the larder . The kitchen couples , that six months before had groaned under a load of bacon and ...
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... turned ; but I re- marked that in neither hand was the lethal weapon with which Biddy had armed him . I changed my deadly purpose instantly , jumped into the kitchen , put a pistol to his breast , and swearing " awfully , " as Uncle ...
... turned ; but I re- marked that in neither hand was the lethal weapon with which Biddy had armed him . I changed my deadly purpose instantly , jumped into the kitchen , put a pistol to his breast , and swearing " awfully , " as Uncle ...
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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...