The Old English Gentleman: Or, The Fields and the Woods, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... side of thirty , huntsman to Squire Scourfield's pack of crack hounds ! Why , it's a better place than the Lord Chancellor's , Will ; at any rate , a better one for you . Now , mark my words- it's the last time that I shall give ye my ...
... side of thirty , huntsman to Squire Scourfield's pack of crack hounds ! Why , it's a better place than the Lord Chancellor's , Will ; at any rate , a better one for you . Now , mark my words- it's the last time that I shall give ye my ...
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... side of the heath was a deep slope , at the bottom of which was a thick growth of furze . Down the fox dipped among the prickles ; but the hounds were so hot upon him , that they took him through in full cry , without a check . On the side ...
... side of the heath was a deep slope , at the bottom of which was a thick growth of furze . Down the fox dipped among the prickles ; but the hounds were so hot upon him , that they took him through in full cry , without a check . On the side ...
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... side- a regular fly of twenty feet . Striver and I exchanged looks as we neared it . I believe , and often have told him so , that he never would have switched that rasper if I'd not been at his side : -as it was , he went at it very ...
... side- a regular fly of twenty feet . Striver and I exchanged looks as we neared it . I believe , and often have told him so , that he never would have switched that rasper if I'd not been at his side : -as it was , he went at it very ...
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... side . As I dipped over the top , there I saw a farmer hallooing the fox , tearing along at the bottom as strong as ever . We kept him in view for three miles across Rington park , but did not gain a yard upon him . A new six feet fence ...
... side . As I dipped over the top , there I saw a farmer hallooing the fox , tearing along at the bottom as strong as ever . We kept him in view for three miles across Rington park , but did not gain a yard upon him . A new six feet fence ...
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... side , head foremost . I pulled up , and expected to see a few broken bones ; but there was Striver , wiping the perspiration from his fore- head as if nothing had happened , standing by the side of his fallen horse . " Are you hurt ...
... side , head foremost . I pulled up , and expected to see a few broken bones ; but there was Striver , wiping the perspiration from his fore- head as if nothing had happened , standing by the side of his fallen horse . " Are you hurt ...
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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.