The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.John William Carleton 1870 |
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... appearance is rather a novelty as Kybla has been most persistent in throwing fillies . Our old friend Charley Alford of the Doncaster Cock a Doodle Doo meeting in Voltigeur's year , has also been squaring up , in his spectacles at Dr ...
... appearance is rather a novelty as Kybla has been most persistent in throwing fillies . Our old friend Charley Alford of the Doncaster Cock a Doodle Doo meeting in Voltigeur's year , has also been squaring up , in his spectacles at Dr ...
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... appeared to love his stock as if they were his own , and woe betide anyone caught trespassing in pursuit of them ! It is only natural that so severe an over - looker , and strict a watcher of his master's interests , should make enemies ...
... appeared to love his stock as if they were his own , and woe betide anyone caught trespassing in pursuit of them ! It is only natural that so severe an over - looker , and strict a watcher of his master's interests , should make enemies ...
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... appeared to be doing duty as porters in the entrance , grinned at me , at least I thought they grinned , seeming to say , I wish you may get it . Sad at heart , disgusted , and annoyed with a long and unsuccessful wet drive , I returned ...
... appeared to be doing duty as porters in the entrance , grinned at me , at least I thought they grinned , seeming to say , I wish you may get it . Sad at heart , disgusted , and annoyed with a long and unsuccessful wet drive , I returned ...
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... appeared a matter of much doubt . Late in the evening a hunting friend dropt in , and declared it was freezing hard , in which , however , he must have been mistaken . Monday opened auspiciously , clear and mild , sufficiently so to ...
... appeared a matter of much doubt . Late in the evening a hunting friend dropt in , and declared it was freezing hard , in which , however , he must have been mistaken . Monday opened auspiciously , clear and mild , sufficiently so to ...
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... appeared extra- ordinary to the other members of the council , and was generally at- tributed to the family connection between Roger and the defender of Catanzaro . No one , however , ventured to contradict him , till the King , who was ...
... appeared extra- ordinary to the other members of the council , and was generally at- tributed to the family connection between Roger and the defender of Catanzaro . No one , however , ventured to contradict him , till the King , who was ...
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Página 350 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 442 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! The moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked ! [Music ceases.
Página 439 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, ' This is my own, my native land...
Página 38 - ... rushes of the liquid lake. The geese fly o'er the barn ; the bees in arms, Drive headlong from their waxen cells in swarms. Jack Straw at London-stone, with all his rout, Struck not the city with so loud a shout ; Not when with English hate they did pursue A Frenchman, or an unbelieving Jew; Not when the welkin rung with ' one and all ;' And echoes bounded back from Fox's hall ; Earth seemed to sink beneath, and heaven above to fall.
Página 197 - And greedily sucks in th' unfaithful food ; Then downward plunges with the fraudful prey, And bears with joy the little spoil away ; Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake, With sudden rage he now aloft appears, And in his eye convulsive anguish bears ; And now again, impatient of the wound, He rolls and...
Página 350 - Yet are ye not, Sporting in tree and air, more beautiful Than the young lambs, that from the valley-side Send a soft bleating like an infant's voice, Half happy, half afraid ! O blessed things ! At sight of this your perfect innocence, The sterner thoughts of manhood melt away Into a mood as mild as woman's dreams.
Página 197 - Now hope exalts the fisher's beating heart, Now he turns pale, and fears his dubious art ; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes, While the line stretches with th...
Página 197 - Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake ; With sudden rage he now aloft appears, And in his eye convulsive anguish bears ; And now again, impatient of the wound, He rolls and wreathes his shining body round ; Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide, The trembling fins the boiling wave divide.
Página 56 - Of a' the games that e'er I saw, Man, callant, laddie birkie wean. The dearest, far aboon them a', Was aye the witching channel stane.
Página 443 - It has been wisely fostered by our sovereigns, who have felt that the security of the kingdom, is increased by every man being more or less a sailor, or connected with the nautical profession.