The Old English Gentleman: Or, The Fields and the Woods, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... whip , " rejoined Will , seizing the lemons and cutting them in halves . " Ask Fanny whether she doesn't think me the first fellow in the county , " added he , with a comical look at his father , and stopping in the act of paring a ...
... whip , " rejoined Will , seizing the lemons and cutting them in halves . " Ask Fanny whether she doesn't think me the first fellow in the county , " added he , with a comical look at his father , and stopping in the act of paring a ...
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... whip under me , " continued his father , " all that you did was a copy of the original ; there was no doubt or fear of doing wrong , because you only , as I may say , echoed what you knew to be right . I ain't a proud man , my son ; but ...
... whip under me , " continued his father , " all that you did was a copy of the original ; there was no doubt or fear of doing wrong , because you only , as I may say , echoed what you knew to be right . I ain't a proud man , my son ; but ...
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... whip - oh , no ! he shirked his leaps , and quailed to mount a young un ; his voice was more like an ill - tempered old woman's than a huntsman's ; his hearing was amiss , and altogether be wasn't the figure for my ideas . So you mustn ...
... whip - oh , no ! he shirked his leaps , and quailed to mount a young un ; his voice was more like an ill - tempered old woman's than a huntsman's ; his hearing was amiss , and altogether be wasn't the figure for my ideas . So you mustn ...
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... whip - hand as they rose at it . By St. Crispin , I never saw such a fall in my whole life . The horse struck the ... whipped off , ' said the squire , " I turned the mare's head to where the fence 24 THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN .
... whip - hand as they rose at it . By St. Crispin , I never saw such a fall in my whole life . The horse struck the ... whipped off , ' said the squire , " I turned the mare's head to where the fence 24 THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN .
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... whip in hand ; but there was no quarrel or fight , and I could see nothing amiss . All were huddled together like a flock of frightened sheep , and they kept crying just as if the cord was being put upon ' em . To tell the truth , I ...
... whip in hand ; but there was no quarrel or fight , and I could see nothing amiss . All were huddled together like a flock of frightened sheep , and they kept crying just as if the cord was being put upon ' em . To tell the truth , I ...
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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.