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Page 83
... Haddon Road . Here Mr. Payne , Mr. Villiers , and a few more got into a corner with no exit , having to gallop up ... East Haddon parish . A dirty coat or two showed that the fences were not so small as they might have been , and we were ...
... Haddon Road . Here Mr. Payne , Mr. Villiers , and a few more got into a corner with no exit , having to gallop up ... East Haddon parish . A dirty coat or two showed that the fences were not so small as they might have been , and we were ...
Page 87
... East Haddon . Mr. Bevan , on Blue Rock , was going admirably throughout . Amongst our best men there was plenty of tumbling . Mr. Rolt was down ; as was also Mr. Gage , from a horse that in five years has never given him a fall , and ...
... East Haddon . Mr. Bevan , on Blue Rock , was going admirably throughout . Amongst our best men there was plenty of tumbling . Mr. Rolt was down ; as was also Mr. Gage , from a horse that in five years has never given him a fall , and ...
Page 214
... East Haddon , he skirted the village , the hounds checking for a second or two in the small field next to the road ; down went their heads again , and across the park at the back of Mr. Sawbridge's , where they turned through a very ...
... East Haddon , he skirted the village , the hounds checking for a second or two in the small field next to the road ; down went their heads again , and across the park at the back of Mr. Sawbridge's , where they turned through a very ...
Page 309
... East Haddon , and in about seventeen minutes reynard had crossed about half a mile below the village . The pace was very severe , and the country very sticky , and more than one dirty coat showed it . The point now was Ravensthorpe ...
... East Haddon , and in about seventeen minutes reynard had crossed about half a mile below the village . The pace was very severe , and the country very sticky , and more than one dirty coat showed it . The point now was Ravensthorpe ...
Page 310
... East Haddon -- something to say , as I actually got into it the last time we crossed that country . Adieux are painful things , sometimes ; but our last day was a merry one ; and considering the melancholy breaking up , every one seemed ...
... East Haddon -- something to say , as I actually got into it the last time we crossed that country . Adieux are painful things , sometimes ; but our last day was a merry one ; and considering the melancholy breaking up , every one seemed ...
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amusement animal appearance beautiful birds boys brace breed chase chesnut Chester Cup colour couple cover Craven day's sport deer Derby Doncaster Duke East Haddon English mastiff excellent fair favour favourite fences field first-rate fish Fitzgeorge fox-hunting gentleman give gorse ground grouse Habberfield handicap hare harriers head Heythrop hill honour horse hounds hour hunters hunting huntsman kennel killed look Lord Lord Vivian master master of hounds mastiff meet Mervan Metropolitan Stakes miles minutes moors morning never Newmarket Newmarket Handicap noble Northamptonshire pace pack Payne present race reynard ride river road Saddel salmon scent Scotland season shooting shot side snipe sovs SPANISH MASTIFF sportsman Stakes started stream stud Tally-ho Tegus thing turf turned untried Westminster whole wild winner wood young
Popular passages
Page 267 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 251 - And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page 144 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round : The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine ! LVI. By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath...
Page 131 - Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant grey !
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 263 - What gars ye rin sae still ? ' Till said to Tweed, ' Though ye rin wi' speed, And I rin slaw, Yet, where ye drown ae man, I drown twa.
Page 349 - The vigorous hounds pursue, with every breath Inhale the grateful steam, quick pleasures sting Their tingling nerves, while they their thanks repay, And in triumphant melody confess The titillating joy. Thus on the air Depend the hunter's hopes.
Page 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...
Page 366 - Beholding all, yet of them unespyde. There' he did see that pleased much his sight, That even he...