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... fair play . Add to these facts that the rules concerning plates contemplated the best of heats , not a simple race . With respect to the evidence which has been published ( to my belief ) for the first time in the annals of the J.C. , I ...
... fair play . Add to these facts that the rules concerning plates contemplated the best of heats , not a simple race . With respect to the evidence which has been published ( to my belief ) for the first time in the annals of the J.C. , I ...
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... fair on the face of the earth at these presents . You could have backed anything in the Cup for California , and found thousands to lay you the odds , at its latest anniversary . " Every railway in the kingdom , direct or collateral ...
... fair on the face of the earth at these presents . You could have backed anything in the Cup for California , and found thousands to lay you the odds , at its latest anniversary . " Every railway in the kingdom , direct or collateral ...
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... fair to make Orlando one of the most popular sires of the day ; and when we remember that Touchstone is now rising twenty - two , we are right glad to see such a worthy son of a worthy sire at the very tip - top of his pro- fession . Mr ...
... fair to make Orlando one of the most popular sires of the day ; and when we remember that Touchstone is now rising twenty - two , we are right glad to see such a worthy son of a worthy sire at the very tip - top of his pro- fession . Mr ...
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... fair hand that had volunteered to work me a jockey - cap , gorgeous in her brother's colours , it was too late to retreat . My dreams that night were a confused and chaotic " jumble " of racing leathers and muslin " aggravations ...
... fair hand that had volunteered to work me a jockey - cap , gorgeous in her brother's colours , it was too late to retreat . My dreams that night were a confused and chaotic " jumble " of racing leathers and muslin " aggravations ...
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... fair hands of Mrs. Montague , and sent the previous evening , with her kind regards , and such a pink note ! I know not ; but my nerves felt braced to encounter the unruly propensities of a dozen Sarabands , and , for one short hour , I ...
... fair hands of Mrs. Montague , and sent the previous evening , with her kind regards , and such a pink note ! I know not ; but my nerves felt braced to encounter the unruly propensities of a dozen Sarabands , and , for one short hour , I ...
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Page 158 - Hath seal'd thee for herself : for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 162 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 319 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 223 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep : Thus runs the world away.
Page 206 - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
Page 379 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 404 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Page 25 - Bring forth the horse !' — the horse was brought ; In truth he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs : but he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and untaught, With spur and bridle Undefiled...
Page 379 - Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! Each stamps its image as the other flies. Each, as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades; yet all, with magic art, Control the latent fibres of the heart.
Page 152 - ... a notice of such forfeit being due, with the name of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name, or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in...