A Famous Fox-hunter: Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq.; Or, The Pursuits of an English Country GentlemanS. Low, Marston, 1893 - 212 páginas |
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Página 179 - Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Página 180 - 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.
Página 179 - Look, when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace, and bone.
Página 12 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Página 28 - O'erturn the proud, teach rapine to restore: And as you ride sublimely round the world, Make every vessel stoop, make every state At...
Página 187 - ... whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with his might...
Página 23 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Página 144 - His glossy skin, or yellow-pied, or blue, In lights or shades by Nature's pencil drawn, Reflects the various tints ; his ears and legs...
Página 27 - Around the World in Eighty Days .... A Floating City .... The Blockade Runners Dr. Ox's Experiment . . Master Zacharius . . . A Drama in the Air . A Winter amid the Ice . The Survivors of the " Chancellor " . . . . } 10 6 7 6 5 0 3 6 2 0 *. d.
Página 115 - Paul. Oh that's a royal sport ! We yet may see the old man in a morning, Lusty as health come ruddy to 'the field, And there pursue the chase, as if he meant To o'ertake time, and bring back youth again.