The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize1856 |
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... course when he had once marked his place , good , bad , or indifferent , distinguished him above his fellows all fences , moreover , were alike to his vicelike seat and delicate hands . This peculiarity of seat is equally remarkable to ...
... course when he had once marked his place , good , bad , or indifferent , distinguished him above his fellows all fences , moreover , were alike to his vicelike seat and delicate hands . This peculiarity of seat is equally remarkable to ...
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... course , and was taken behind the weighing - house by Isaac Day to receive a long explanation as to why " The Vicar " superseded him . Beverley had a copious uninteresting style of meeting ; but the Yorkshire trysts lose half their ...
... course , and was taken behind the weighing - house by Isaac Day to receive a long explanation as to why " The Vicar " superseded him . Beverley had a copious uninteresting style of meeting ; but the Yorkshire trysts lose half their ...
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... course's office . He was having a com- fortable nap on the sofa , and when he awoke , he told us he had dreamt about the St. Leger , and Rotherham had won . Tom Carter also paid his last visit that year , and his old master , who is 14 ...
... course's office . He was having a com- fortable nap on the sofa , and when he awoke , he told us he had dreamt about the St. Leger , and Rotherham had won . Tom Carter also paid his last visit that year , and his old master , who is 14 ...
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... course is cleared for their especial service , and the jocks parade their pets amid the jocund crowd with becoming dignity . In perfect keeping with the occasion appears young Snowball , the caminarian professor , attired in full May ...
... course is cleared for their especial service , and the jocks parade their pets amid the jocund crowd with becoming dignity . In perfect keeping with the occasion appears young Snowball , the caminarian professor , attired in full May ...
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... course . Young Crocky takes the lead , till , reaching the first turn , his flyer obstinately persists in his onward course ; he eventually stops his Balaam , when a convulsive kick precipitates him on his back . Snowball pegs away ...
... course . Young Crocky takes the lead , till , reaching the first turn , his flyer obstinately persists in his onward course ; he eventually stops his Balaam , when a convulsive kick precipitates him on his back . Snowball pegs away ...
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Página 94 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Página 183 - With the loud streams: and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above all power of sight — An iron knell ! with echoes from afar Faint — and still fainter...
Página 199 - Won by half a length, a length and a half between the second and third, and a length between the third and fourth.
Página 122 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 175 - Muse ? Night and all her sickly dews, Her spectres wan, and birds of boding cry, He gives to range the dreary sky : Till down the eastern, cliffs afar Hyperion's march they spy, and glittering shafts of war.
Página 156 - ... may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may refer the case to a general meeting, if the importance or difficulty of the matter in dispute shall appear to them to require it. The witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence, and if either party...
Página 301 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Página 192 - And very often have we heard How men are killed and undone By overturns of carriages, By thieves, and fires in London; We know what risks all landsmen run, From noblemen to tailors; Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors.
Página 113 - Won by two lengths, three lengths between the second and third. The...
Página 274 - Among the blooming heather," says Burns ; and it is chiefly in those parts of the country, where the moors and mountain sides are purple with the blossoms of the Erica, that tho black grouse must be sought for. It does not, however, mix with the red species, to which it is said to be a determined enemy ; so that some grouse preservers, observing that where the former increased the latter decreased, have latterly determined...