The New sporting magazine, 第 57 卷1869 |
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... natural desire him to see him retire victoriously . There was a very large amount of speculation on the race , and £ 1,000 even was laid in one bet . At starting , Kelley , who rowed much quicker than usual , took the lead , and , con ...
... natural desire him to see him retire victoriously . There was a very large amount of speculation on the race , and £ 1,000 even was laid in one bet . At starting , Kelley , who rowed much quicker than usual , took the lead , and , con ...
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... natural conclusion that it was half painter's flattery and the rest gold lace . 66 Oh yes , said I , it's nonsense , fine feathers make fine birds ; " and I dare say were I decked out like that every one would admire me , and when dead ...
... natural conclusion that it was half painter's flattery and the rest gold lace . 66 Oh yes , said I , it's nonsense , fine feathers make fine birds ; " and I dare say were I decked out like that every one would admire me , and when dead ...
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... nature . As for Agnes and I , we had long sworn eternal love and vowed never to marry any one else , although to wait until she had attained her majority we looked upon as an unbearable cruelty , for she was then only seventeen years of ...
... nature . As for Agnes and I , we had long sworn eternal love and vowed never to marry any one else , although to wait until she had attained her majority we looked upon as an unbearable cruelty , for she was then only seventeen years of ...
第24页
... natural qualities be perfect , and answerable for the work to which end you intend them . " The pointer has been known in Great Britain some little time before the commencement of the present century , but its direct origin is involved ...
... natural qualities be perfect , and answerable for the work to which end you intend them . " The pointer has been known in Great Britain some little time before the commencement of the present century , but its direct origin is involved ...
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... Nature , instead of becoming etiolated , they should have attained to so high a standard of permanent equine perfection , that any resort to a reinfusion of the blood that formed their ancestral stock would prejudice their excellence as ...
... Nature , instead of becoming etiolated , they should have attained to so high a standard of permanent equine perfection , that any resort to a reinfusion of the blood that formed their ancestral stock would prejudice their excellence as ...
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第277页 - 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.
第278页 - But who the melodies of morn can tell? The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley...
第320页 - Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go ; and the wheels were lifted up over against them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
第27页 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
第329页 - TO one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment...
第281页 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slack'd upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey !
第138页 - And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod: For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God.
第189页 - It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts ; to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemies approach, the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid the...
第188页 - ... tired. To this entertainment, there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain ; he defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them.
第117页 - Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding and many dangers accompany them ; but this is still and quiet : and if so be the angler catch no Fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the Brook side, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams ; he hath good air.