The Old English Gentleman: Or, The Fields and the Woods, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... leap and high - mettled horse were the same objects of fearless attraction and delight ; still his voice rung merrily through copse and cover , as he cheered his darling pack ; and , for many miles round Woodland Hall , Squire ...
... leap and high - mettled horse were the same objects of fearless attraction and delight ; still his voice rung merrily through copse and cover , as he cheered his darling pack ; and , for many miles round Woodland Hall , Squire ...
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... leap and high - mettled horse were the same objects of fearless attraction and delight ; still his voice rung merrily through copse and cover , as he cheered his darling pack ; and , for many miles round Woodland Hall , Squire ...
... leap and high - mettled horse were the same objects of fearless attraction and delight ; still his voice rung merrily through copse and cover , as he cheered his darling pack ; and , for many miles round Woodland Hall , Squire ...
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... leap with joy : not in that tone as if a rabbit had made a break of it instead of a fox . - At all times , keep your hounds for'ard ; they will tire on a cold scent . When they are stopped by sheep , or any thing else , help them , for ...
... leap with joy : not in that tone as if a rabbit had made a break of it instead of a fox . - At all times , keep your hounds for'ard ; they will tire on a cold scent . When they are stopped by sheep , or any thing else , help them , for ...
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... leap before him , the way in which he asks ' what he's waiting for , ' is a caution not to show him so much respect for the future . He can't abide humbug in any shape . " In a handful of seconds on went as strong a fox as ever rattled ...
... leap before him , the way in which he asks ' what he's waiting for , ' is a caution not to show him so much respect for the future . He can't abide humbug in any shape . " In a handful of seconds on went as strong a fox as ever rattled ...
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... took their spring at it ; but , the ground being much lower on the other side , both of them staggered upon their legs as they cleared the splitting leap . " The hounds dived into the cover about a hundred 20 THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN .
... took their spring at it ; but , the ground being much lower on the other side , both of them staggered upon their legs as they cleared the splitting leap . " The hounds dived into the cover about a hundred 20 THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN .
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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.