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... look so well . The cases of Messrs . Coyle , Alleynes , and D'Arcy , are likely to be drawn into precedents ; and criminal sessions and indictments in Westminster Hall are not encouraging incidents . Coyle , indeed , does not come into ...
... look so well . The cases of Messrs . Coyle , Alleynes , and D'Arcy , are likely to be drawn into precedents ; and criminal sessions and indictments in Westminster Hall are not encouraging incidents . Coyle , indeed , does not come into ...
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... look at as you might expect to meet on Moulsey Hurst , or in leather plating generally . Now it came to pass that one of those exemplary men who make a practice of frequenting race courses with lobster - sallads and edibles , asked me ...
... look at as you might expect to meet on Moulsey Hurst , or in leather plating generally . Now it came to pass that one of those exemplary men who make a practice of frequenting race courses with lobster - sallads and edibles , asked me ...
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... look if the weights had been fished out of a hat : Confessor " in a canter . " The Leger was won by John Scott and Newminster in a similar style . There is generally a feature about this stake : a genuine sporting character - good , bad ...
... look if the weights had been fished out of a hat : Confessor " in a canter . " The Leger was won by John Scott and Newminster in a similar style . There is generally a feature about this stake : a genuine sporting character - good , bad ...
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... look to this , or it will find its way into Westminster Hall . The racing lasted , as it always does at this meeting , for the six days of the week . It was ample ; but as a fact part and parcel of the policy of the turf , not without ...
... look to this , or it will find its way into Westminster Hall . The racing lasted , as it always does at this meeting , for the six days of the week . It was ample ; but as a fact part and parcel of the policy of the turf , not without ...
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... look as rosy and smiling at the anticipation of a clean , bright , hard , dry walk , as if there were no foxhounds in existence . This is rather too bad and not content with enjoying their own blue - nose propen- sities , they insist ...
... look as rosy and smiling at the anticipation of a clean , bright , hard , dry walk , as if there were no foxhounds in existence . This is rather too bad and not content with enjoying their own blue - nose propen- sities , they insist ...
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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...