The New sporting magazine, Volume 231852 |
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... seem half alive at the sight of the dogs . Sewell Wood : prime place - stopped there nearly all day . If they want to kill a fox why don't they shoot him ? -could have killed him ever so many times : drove him back every time he showed ...
... seem half alive at the sight of the dogs . Sewell Wood : prime place - stopped there nearly all day . If they want to kill a fox why don't they shoot him ? -could have killed him ever so many times : drove him back every time he showed ...
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... seems very remarkable that only three - eighths or so of those foals should have their manes plaited as two - year ... seem to be tiring of such an expensive sport , and Captain Rous has therefore very few with whom he may bring his ...
... seems very remarkable that only three - eighths or so of those foals should have their manes plaited as two - year ... seem to be tiring of such an expensive sport , and Captain Rous has therefore very few with whom he may bring his ...
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... seems to have been a very false test of the real merits of the two . That the latter is a good " miler " we can readily believe ; but if Teddington had been in the same springy order as he was at Epsom , he would never have had to taste ...
... seems to have been a very false test of the real merits of the two . That the latter is a good " miler " we can readily believe ; but if Teddington had been in the same springy order as he was at Epsom , he would never have had to taste ...
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... seems to have hit upon the latter to a nicety . Lord Eglinton , for instance , hits the happy medium ; and the consequence is that the victory of the tartan is always hailed with the most unqualified delight both by " the ring " and ...
... seems to have hit upon the latter to a nicety . Lord Eglinton , for instance , hits the happy medium ; and the consequence is that the victory of the tartan is always hailed with the most unqualified delight both by " the ring " and ...
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... seems often to overtax him without rhyme or reason , as he pulled him out once against Elthiron , once against Little Fawn ( at a 38lbs . disadvantage ) , and three times against Miss Ann at the Caledonian Hunt ( the last of these races ...
... seems often to overtax him without rhyme or reason , as he pulled him out once against Elthiron , once against Little Fawn ( at a 38lbs . disadvantage ) , and three times against Miss Ann at the Caledonian Hunt ( the last of these races ...
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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...