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... head quarters was a good average . The interest , however , was very various . I might , indeed , have said the principal - for the value of the stakes differed awfully . A field of three " flying coursers " -to quote Mr. Batty's style ...
... head quarters was a good average . The interest , however , was very various . I might , indeed , have said the principal - for the value of the stakes differed awfully . A field of three " flying coursers " -to quote Mr. Batty's style ...
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... head and tail , and over - worked fetlocks , fit to carry a light boy to a pack of harriers and 4th - is the President , the only hunter in the whole of the team with a strong suspicion about his wind , and a very mild - looking off ...
... head and tail , and over - worked fetlocks , fit to carry a light boy to a pack of harriers and 4th - is the President , the only hunter in the whole of the team with a strong suspicion about his wind , and a very mild - looking off ...
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... head of a stable , and the stale form in which Voltigeur was brought out for his match did not say very much for his judgment . The career of the Flying Dutchman may be simply summed up thus : he won eleven times , walked over four ...
... head of a stable , and the stale form in which Voltigeur was brought out for his match did not say very much for his judgment . The career of the Flying Dutchman may be simply summed up thus : he won eleven times , walked over four ...
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... head of the 706 winning nags , with 14 races , which is 3 less than last year . This remarkable horse has thus started for 61 races within eighteen months , 31 of them . Copper - bottomed as he is , his owner seems often to overtax him ...
... head of the 706 winning nags , with 14 races , which is 3 less than last year . This remarkable horse has thus started for 61 races within eighteen months , 31 of them . Copper - bottomed as he is , his owner seems often to overtax him ...
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... head , and an ominous " floreat scientia , " which , on being opened , corroborated with its short and pithy contents my surmises as to its authorship . I give it verbatim , as a despatch concise , peremptory , and to the point ...
... head , and an ominous " floreat scientia , " which , on being opened , corroborated with its short and pithy contents my surmises as to its authorship . I give it verbatim , as a despatch concise , peremptory , and to the point ...
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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...