The New sporting magazine, Volume 231852 |
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... late introduction of the turf at court will anon - in due course of time - improve its social position . It was , after all , against reason to hope that its open despoiling could endure , or be endured , for True , thousands of ...
... late introduction of the turf at court will anon - in due course of time - improve its social position . It was , after all , against reason to hope that its open despoiling could endure , or be endured , for True , thousands of ...
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... late owner's place on the turf will be well filled by Lord Ribblesdale , who begins with as nice a set of two - year - olds as man need wish for . We thought when Hobby Noble , Buckthorn , and Kingston came out together at Ascot , that ...
... late owner's place on the turf will be well filled by Lord Ribblesdale , who begins with as nice a set of two - year - olds as man need wish for . We thought when Hobby Noble , Buckthorn , and Kingston came out together at Ascot , that ...
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... been himself this year . Such a fine - framed son of Irish Birdcatcher must have more running in him than he has shown of late ; but £ 210 due for forfeits in Messrs . Weatherby's black list will , no 26 TURF PENCILLINGS .
... been himself this year . Such a fine - framed son of Irish Birdcatcher must have more running in him than he has shown of late ; but £ 210 due for forfeits in Messrs . Weatherby's black list will , no 26 TURF PENCILLINGS .
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... late Mr. Forbes , and was afterwards brought to perfection by an unsparing career of universal conquest over the whole male creation ? How could I escape ? Many an act of folly have I performed in my chequered life ; but , with one ...
... late Mr. Forbes , and was afterwards brought to perfection by an unsparing career of universal conquest over the whole male creation ? How could I escape ? Many an act of folly have I performed in my chequered life ; but , with one ...
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... late now ! Topthorne summons me from the carriage ; and as he casts his eye towards the heavens , suggests the propriety of getting " the Hurricane Handicap " over before the thunder - storm , which is obviously brewing , and which my ...
... late now ! Topthorne summons me from the carriage ; and as he casts his eye towards the heavens , suggests the propriety of getting " the Hurricane Handicap " over before the thunder - storm , which is obviously brewing , and which my ...
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Page 158 - Hath seal'd thee for herself : for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 162 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 319 - 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-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 223 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep : Thus runs the world away.
Page 206 - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
Page 379 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 404 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Page 25 - Bring forth the horse !' — the horse was brought ; In truth he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs : but he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and untaught, With spur and bridle Undefiled...
Page 379 - Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! Each stamps its image as the other flies. Each, as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades; yet all, with magic art, Control the latent fibres of the heart.
Page 152 - ... a notice of such forfeit being due, with the name of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name, or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in...