The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volum 10John William Carleton 1843 |
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... things unknown a score of years ago , when youths of spirit fed as lavishly as Lucullus , and slaked their thirst as regardless of expense as Cleo- patra when she drank to Antony . As will be supposed , I was at this epoch up to the ...
... things unknown a score of years ago , when youths of spirit fed as lavishly as Lucullus , and slaked their thirst as regardless of expense as Cleo- patra when she drank to Antony . As will be supposed , I was at this epoch up to the ...
Pàgina 5
... thing - a dandy . I found that my uncle was confined to his chamber by certain twinges , precursors of a fit of the gout . I looked in on him as I descended , and found that he laid my elaborate toilet to the account of a strong wish to ...
... thing - a dandy . I found that my uncle was confined to his chamber by certain twinges , precursors of a fit of the gout . I looked in on him as I descended , and found that he laid my elaborate toilet to the account of a strong wish to ...
Pàgina 7
... thing , orders the main - springs to be detached , the breeches put in , sees the several parts deposited snugly in their green partitions , and , lastly , the brass - bound mahogany box slipped into its travelling case of leather C ...
... thing , orders the main - springs to be detached , the breeches put in , sees the several parts deposited snugly in their green partitions , and , lastly , the brass - bound mahogany box slipped into its travelling case of leather C ...
Pàgina 9
... astus of the brute cre- ation returns . All things progress harmoniously ; a new race receives life , and the benevolent intentions of Providence are fulfilled . As the summer progresses , not a few are the c 2 THE SHOOTER'S HOLIDAY . 9.
... astus of the brute cre- ation returns . All things progress harmoniously ; a new race receives life , and the benevolent intentions of Providence are fulfilled . As the summer progresses , not a few are the c 2 THE SHOOTER'S HOLIDAY . 9.
Pàgina 23
... thing with hounds , when the scent serves well ; and your long runs , through a score parishes , though often boasted of in the news- papers , are slovenly performances for the most part , and very pro- perly called " journeys , " by ...
... thing with hounds , when the scent serves well ; and your long runs , through a score parishes , though often boasted of in the news- papers , are slovenly performances for the most part , and very pro- perly called " journeys , " by ...
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Passatges populars
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.