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... Hounds . Mr . Harvey was from home ; but we were informed that Quick , the huntsman , was at the stables , and thither we accordingly repaired . Ahuntsman , generally speaking , does not show to advantage in his “ mufti ” dress ; Mr ...
... Hounds . Mr . Harvey was from home ; but we were informed that Quick , the huntsman , was at the stables , and thither we accordingly repaired . Ahuntsman , generally speaking , does not show to advantage in his “ mufti ” dress ; Mr ...
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... hounds , and the best one we ' ve ever yet had . ” “ ' Tis , I think , a pity , ” observed Jones , “ that you change so oftenthis is so difficult a country to get through after hounds , that both hantsman and whip cannot possibly be too ...
... hounds , and the best one we ' ve ever yet had . ” “ ' Tis , I think , a pity , ” observed Jones , “ that you change so oftenthis is so difficult a country to get through after hounds , that both hantsman and whip cannot possibly be too ...
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... hounds . " “ No , " remarked Jones , “ nor many men who can ride as fairly to them as you do , Quick ; but I dare say even you were rather puzzled at first . ” “ Why , for that matter , " answered Quick , “ I find I can now get on ...
... hounds . " “ No , " remarked Jones , “ nor many men who can ride as fairly to them as you do , Quick ; but I dare say even you were rather puzzled at first . ” “ Why , for that matter , " answered Quick , “ I find I can now get on ...
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... hounds ; for whilst to the initiated in “ dogology " the huntsinan , as he summonses every one by name , learnedly expatiates on depth of chest , roundness of foot , muscular throat , spare flanks , and well - filled loins — to the ...
... hounds ; for whilst to the initiated in “ dogology " the huntsinan , as he summonses every one by name , learnedly expatiates on depth of chest , roundness of foot , muscular throat , spare flanks , and well - filled loins — to the ...
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... hounds draw the Brookland coverts without finding . And after all - missing or killing — I think our sport was tolerable this morning . " " Well , your worshipful honour , well , I ' m stagnated , but I recollects the day when your ...
... hounds draw the Brookland coverts without finding . And after all - missing or killing — I think our sport was tolerable this morning . " " Well , your worshipful honour , well , I ' m stagnated , but I recollects the day when your ...
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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.