The Old English Gentleman: Or, The Fields and the Woods, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... There is nothing in continental life that may for a moment compare , either in solid worth , or in social and political value , with the " Old English Gentleman " of the past and ( the writer of these pages must venture to insist ) the ...
... There is nothing in continental life that may for a moment compare , either in solid worth , or in social and political value , with the " Old English Gentleman " of the past and ( the writer of these pages must venture to insist ) the ...
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... there in more strength and purity than in our own day . It is partly to give vent to the overflowings of this feeling in himself , partly to communi- cate it to others , that the writer of these pages has endeavoured to depict the ...
... there in more strength and purity than in our own day . It is partly to give vent to the overflowings of this feeling in himself , partly to communi- cate it to others , that the writer of these pages has endeavoured to depict the ...
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... There , that's as it should be , " ex- claimed he , stretching out his legs , and filling the bowl of a short pipe . Tom Bolton's hair was thin , and the many winters that had passed since he was a " fea- ther weight " had frosted the ...
... There , that's as it should be , " ex- claimed he , stretching out his legs , and filling the bowl of a short pipe . Tom Bolton's hair was thin , and the many winters that had passed since he was a " fea- ther weight " had frosted the ...
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... There , that's as it should be , " ex- claimed he , stretching out his legs , and filling the bowl of a short pipe . Tom Bolton's hair was thin , and the many winters that had passed since he was a " fea- ther weight " had frosted the ...
... There , that's as it should be , " ex- claimed he , stretching out his legs , and filling the bowl of a short pipe . Tom Bolton's hair was thin , and the many winters that had passed since he was a " fea- ther weight " had frosted the ...
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... There , governor , taste that , " said he . The old man took the proffered flagon , and , after surveying its contents , said , " Here's the squire's health - God bless him ! " 66 Amen , " rejoined Will , draining one of like appearance ...
... There , governor , taste that , " said he . The old man took the proffered flagon , and , after surveying its contents , said , " Here's the squire's health - God bless him ! " 66 Amen , " rejoined Will , draining one of like appearance ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
added appearance Ashley asked the squire asked Wilmott attorney bipeds Bolton Bumstead Button close coat continued the squire cousin dear dogs door ears exclaimed the squire eyes Fanny father favourite fellow Fiddylee fingers gentlemen girls hallooed hand head hear heard hope horse hounds hunt huntsman inquired Jack Tiggle joined jumped keeper ladies laugh leap lips look loud master Merryman minutes morning mulled wine neck never Newfoundland dog night observed Titley old whipper-in otter pack Powis Titley pulled Ranger rejoined Agnes rejoined Titley replied Agnes replied Kate replied Peter replied the squire replied Titley replied Wilmott rose round scent Scourfield Hall shouted side smiled smock-frock squire's stood Striver tail tally-ho terrier There's thick thing Titley's Tom Bolton Tom's trapper Trimbush turned uncle voice walk watchmen whip William William Bolton wish wood Woodland Rookery yards Yoiks young
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Página 264 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Página ix - He was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over, Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore, He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their nature by abstracts. Hudibras.
Página ix - He understood b' implicit faith: Whatever Skeptic could inquire for; For every WHY he had a WHEREFORE : Knew more than forty of them do, As far as words and terms could go. All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion...
Página 9 - ... the coppices, I like to see a huntsman put only a few hounds over, enough to carry on the scent, and get forward with the rest, it is a proof that he knows his business. A huntsman must take care, where foxes are in plenty, lest he should run the heel; for it frequently happens, that hounds can run the wrong way of the scent better than they can the right, when one is up the wind, and the other down. Fox-hunters, I think, are never guilty of the fault of trying up the wind, before they have tried...
Página 32 - 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-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.