Sporting MagazineRogerson & Tuxford, 1833 |
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... Course , each party decidedly sanguine , although the betting was 6 to 4 on the offspring of Sorrow ; but Clear- well was on his favorite course , was always , or could have been , a length first , and with this advantage the race ended ...
... Course , each party decidedly sanguine , although the betting was 6 to 4 on the offspring of Sorrow ; but Clear- well was on his favorite course , was always , or could have been , a length first , and with this advantage the race ended ...
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... course ) , second ; Felucca , third ; Mr. Forth's Woful filly last ..... but why point at Mr. Forth's Woful filly , when there was so much of that family in the lot ! General Grosvenor's filly Blue Eyes , her dam Blue Stockings , shame ...
... course ) , second ; Felucca , third ; Mr. Forth's Woful filly last ..... but why point at Mr. Forth's Woful filly , when there was so much of that family in the lot ! General Grosvenor's filly Blue Eyes , her dam Blue Stockings , shame ...
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... course of his sixteen years ' experience more than four or five runs outright in it equal to those which he has experienced in the Vale country in the course of one season ; it being the nature of the Down hare to run short , and cling ...
... course of his sixteen years ' experience more than four or five runs outright in it equal to those which he has experienced in the Vale country in the course of one season ; it being the nature of the Down hare to run short , and cling ...
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... course , increased by an ad- ditional 30 sovs . , was run off in three heats - the distance two miles and a quarter ; weights , four - year - olds , 11st . 4lb .; five , 12st .; six and aged , 12st . 4lb .; horses not thorough - bred ...
... course , increased by an ad- ditional 30 sovs . , was run off in three heats - the distance two miles and a quarter ; weights , four - year - olds , 11st . 4lb .; five , 12st .; six and aged , 12st . 4lb .; horses not thorough - bred ...
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... course it must be absolute speed , and the de saltibus is of no avail . On stripping it was evi- dent that Sir William Ball's bay horse Scud , by Friar Bacon , had it all his own way , so far as con- dition could do it for him - and we ...
... course it must be absolute speed , and the de saltibus is of no avail . On stripping it was evi- dent that Sir William Ball's bay horse Scud , by Friar Bacon , had it all his own way , so far as con- dition could do it for him - and we ...
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25 sovs 50 sovs agst beat beautiful Belshazzar Blacklock breed Catton Colonel colt Comus Cosby's course covert day's Derby distance Duke East Sussex Emilius favorite Filho fillies fish five sovs following also started four fox-hunting Gardnor's Geldings allowed Gondolier Grosvenor's half heats Houldsworth's hounds hunting jack snipe Lady late Leger length Lord Chesterfield's Lord Exeter's Lottery mare Margaux match Meeting miles Miss Muley named never Newmarket once round owner Partisan Pavis Peel's Peter Lely PLATE of 50 race rider rode Royal sailing season second horse SERIES.-No shew shooting six and aged sport sportsman Stainborough STAKES of 25 stud subs Sultan Sweepstakes Thousand Guineas Stakes three-year-olds tion trout Turf two-year-olds Velocipede vessels Warlaby Water Witch Whalebone Whisker winner winning Wood's Yacht Club young
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Página 210 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Página 211 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave, Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Página 284 - What, though you tell me each gay little rover Shrinks from the breath of the first autumn day: Surely 'tis better when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.
Página 21 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give ; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Página 78 - Drink of this cup, you'll find there's a spell in its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality. Talk of the cordial that sparkled for Helen ! Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality (Barclay and Co.'s). If they ever send it in a flat state, complain to the Governor. Yours, RS" " RS ! " said Kit, after some consideration.
Página 119 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest ; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Página 356 - ... ranging to distant downs and commons even in windy weather, which the other species seem much to dislike ; nay, even frequenting exposed sea-port towns, and making little excursions over the salt water. Horsemen on wide downs are often closely attended by a little party of swallows for miles together, which play before and behind them, sweeping around, and collecting all the skulking insects that are .roused by the trampling of the horses
Página 355 - In defence of my opinion about the nightingales, I find Chaucer, — who of all poets seems to have been the fondest of the singing of birds, — calls it a merry note, and though Theocritus mentions nightingales six or seven times, he never mentions their note as plaintive or melancholy...
Página 303 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Página 18 - STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for three yrs. old colts, 8st. 71b.; and fillies, 8st. 21b.; the owner of the second horse received 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner paid 100 sovs. towards the expences of additional police-officers.