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... Stakes on the preceding day , she had incurred a penalty of 7lbs . , the value of the stake being more than one hundred pounds . In proof , the conditions were tendered in ovi . dence - - viz . , “ The Royal Hunt Cup , a piece of plate ...
... Stakes on the preceding day , she had incurred a penalty of 7lbs . , the value of the stake being more than one hundred pounds . In proof , the conditions were tendered in ovi . dence - - viz . , “ The Royal Hunt Cup , a piece of plate ...
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... Stakes of 100 sovs . each , & c . , 8st . 7lb . each , R . M . ; won by Lord Exeter ' s Stockwell , Duke of Richmond ' s Homebrewed second , Sir R . Pigott ' s Filius third ; and Lord Exeter ' s Ambrose , Duke of Bedford ' s Maidstone ...
... Stakes of 100 sovs . each , & c . , 8st . 7lb . each , R . M . ; won by Lord Exeter ' s Stockwell , Duke of Richmond ' s Homebrewed second , Sir R . Pigott ' s Filius third ; and Lord Exeter ' s Ambrose , Duke of Bedford ' s Maidstone ...
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... Stakes ; only one horse sent ! Nottingham Handicap , sent Lindrick and Lady Amyott ; came in first and second . " “ GOODWOOD STAKES AND Cup ! GOODWOOD STAKES AND CUP ! ! - A great number of winners guaranteed by NONPAREIL for the ...
... Stakes ; only one horse sent ! Nottingham Handicap , sent Lindrick and Lady Amyott ; came in first and second . " “ GOODWOOD STAKES AND Cup ! GOODWOOD STAKES AND CUP ! ! - A great number of winners guaranteed by NONPAREIL for the ...
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... Stakes of 10 sovs . each , & c . ; colts 8st . 716 . , fillies 8st . 4lb . , New Mile , beating Duke of Richmond ' s ... Stakes , at Catterick Bridge , value clear ...
... Stakes of 10 sovs . each , & c . ; colts 8st . 716 . , fillies 8st . 4lb . , New Mile , beating Duke of Richmond ' s ... Stakes , at Catterick Bridge , value clear ...
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... stake . It was nuggets - - for the picking up . The Eglinton Stakes , 31 subscribers , paraded only seven . What between the basting the book division had been undergoing , and the obvious leakage of the stables , one might have looked ...
... stake . It was nuggets - - for the picking up . The Eglinton Stakes , 31 subscribers , paraded only seven . What between the basting the book division had been undergoing , and the obvious leakage of the stables , one might have looked ...
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Page 152 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page 326 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin! Here's the house!" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits and we are tired.
Page 262 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 361 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature, that noble Lord may entertain, I know not ; but I know, that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. "What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
Page 129 - ... the old familiar faces. Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces.
Page 194 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 152 - Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 71 - CUP of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared. The winner paid 30 sovs.
Page 263 - 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.
Page 4 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam that is in thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.