The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Band 19John William Carleton 1848 |
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... river's bounds The race was run on pasture grounds , Yet many a nag of blood and bone Was heard to cross it with a groan ; For blackthorns stiff the fields di- vide , With watery ditch on either side . By Lechlade's village fences rise ...
... river's bounds The race was run on pasture grounds , Yet many a nag of blood and bone Was heard to cross it with a groan ; For blackthorns stiff the fields di- vide , With watery ditch on either side . By Lechlade's village fences rise ...
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... river ; she employs every possible means to keep her person dry , espe- cially her sides , her belly , legs , and feet , and for this purpose she licks herself dry all over and clean previous to going to form . During wet wea- ther she ...
... river ; she employs every possible means to keep her person dry , espe- cially her sides , her belly , legs , and feet , and for this purpose she licks herself dry all over and clean previous to going to form . During wet wea- ther she ...
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... river , the skating on the duck - pond , the shooting near the Willow - walk , the fights with the skies , i . e . black- guards , and above all , the jolly " tucks - in " at the establishments of the purveyors of edibles and buvables ...
... river , the skating on the duck - pond , the shooting near the Willow - walk , the fights with the skies , i . e . black- guards , and above all , the jolly " tucks - in " at the establishments of the purveyors of edibles and buvables ...
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... river at the weirs , the fisherman can take his twelve - pound pike , or the squire bag his six brace of birds , to say nothing of snipe and water- rail . The wild duck brings up her young in the marsh ; the long- legged watchful heron ...
... river at the weirs , the fisherman can take his twelve - pound pike , or the squire bag his six brace of birds , to say nothing of snipe and water- rail . The wild duck brings up her young in the marsh ; the long- legged watchful heron ...
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... Thames : - " The river calmly swells and flows ; The charms of this enchanted ground , And all its various turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round . The sternest heart its wish might bound , On earth LITERATURE . 143.
... Thames : - " The river calmly swells and flows ; The charms of this enchanted ground , And all its various turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round . The sternest heart its wish might bound , On earth LITERATURE . 143.
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Seite 281 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 249 - And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Seite 73 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the...
Seite 131 - Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant gray!
Seite 129 - LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Seite 129 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. And so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
Seite 265 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage...
Seite 175 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Seite 133 - When we consider that all coachmen, grooms, jockeys, " et hoc genus omne," stop, have stopped, and will stop at inns until time or ale is no more, no surprise need be excited at their thinking what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander...
Seite 366 - Beholding all, yet of them unespyde. There' he did see that pleased much his sight, That even he...