The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volum 10John William Carleton 1843 |
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... pleasures , I was to nibble a second time at the matrimonial bait . In describing my sposa that was to be , Uncle Tom waxed eloquent . Using many endearing terms to lure my roving fancy to the point at issue , he harangued enough of ...
... pleasures , I was to nibble a second time at the matrimonial bait . In describing my sposa that was to be , Uncle Tom waxed eloquent . Using many endearing terms to lure my roving fancy to the point at issue , he harangued enough of ...
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... pleasures are sadly misnamed ; town is the only resort for the fastidious , " I replied , obtusely . Breeding is after all but conventional ; the politeness of one age is the barbarism of another . How natural are our present race of ...
... pleasures are sadly misnamed ; town is the only resort for the fastidious , " I replied , obtusely . Breeding is after all but conventional ; the politeness of one age is the barbarism of another . How natural are our present race of ...
Pàgina 7
... pleasures and anxieties for the sportsman . From the month of August to that of February , his time is pretty freely passed in the field . A long harvest is his - delightful the variety and rotation of his crops . The grouse and ...
... pleasures and anxieties for the sportsman . From the month of August to that of February , his time is pretty freely passed in the field . A long harvest is his - delightful the variety and rotation of his crops . The grouse and ...
Pàgina 8
... pleasures of the field . A deep , unspeakable love of natural scenery ( often ill- understood , it is true , and but dimly perceived by those who , neverthe less , acutely feel it ) , and a ceaseless craving after mental excitement ...
... pleasures of the field . A deep , unspeakable love of natural scenery ( often ill- understood , it is true , and but dimly perceived by those who , neverthe less , acutely feel it ) , and a ceaseless craving after mental excitement ...
Pàgina 9
John William Carleton. shooting , and devoted as we are to its pleasures , we have no disdain for other sports ; on the contrary , having laid down the gun , we take up the rod with a light and jocund heart - and we count , in memory , a ...
John William Carleton. shooting , and devoted as we are to its pleasures , we have no disdain for other sports ; on the contrary , having laid down the gun , we take up the rod with a light and jocund heart - and we count , in memory , a ...
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Pàgina 336 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ! Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I 'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Pàgina 204 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Pàgina 282 - Oh Plato ! Plato ! you have paved the way, With your confounded fantasies, to more Immoral conduct by the fancied sway Your system feigns o'er the controlless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers : — You're a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb — and have been, At best, no better than a go-between.
Pàgina 153 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Pàgina 169 - The gun fast-thundering, and the winded horn, Would tempt the muse to sing the rural game : How, in his mid-career, the spaniel, struck Stiff by the tainted gale, with open nose, Out-stretch'd, and finely sensible, draws full, Fearful, and cautious, on the latent prey...
Pàgina 370 - Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury of your own countrymen of the crime laid to your charge ; and I must say I entirely agree with the verdict ; for I see ' scoundrel
Pàgina 223 - For a plate, no person can run, either in his own name or in that of any other person...
Pàgina 161 - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal, man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps ; regions consecrate To oldest time ! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in her nest, Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there...
Pàgina 36 - Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy. The whole secret consisted in a strict adherence to two rules: the one always to observe, that the picture might have been better if the painter had taken more pains ; and the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino.