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... short , crime has grown vulgar : and even 46 an affair of honour " - recently a fashionable , or rather , an obligatory system of homicide - has lost caste , and will soon become obsolete . The late introduction of the turf at court ...
... short , crime has grown vulgar : and even 46 an affair of honour " - recently a fashionable , or rather , an obligatory system of homicide - has lost caste , and will soon become obsolete . The late introduction of the turf at court ...
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... short time before the race , that he could not start two horses ; and it was still more curious that very few persons on the Doncaster Race Course were cognisant of it until it was publicly stated that Sir J. H. had sold Vatican to Mr ...
... short time before the race , that he could not start two horses ; and it was still more curious that very few persons on the Doncaster Race Course were cognisant of it until it was publicly stated that Sir J. H. had sold Vatican to Mr ...
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... short time ago to " the columns of the Sunday papers occupied every week by their advertisements ; " and he asked , " What next ? " Did he suppose it would stop there ? Some three or four years ago racing " lotteries " became popular ...
... short time ago to " the columns of the Sunday papers occupied every week by their advertisements ; " and he asked , " What next ? " Did he suppose it would stop there ? Some three or four years ago racing " lotteries " became popular ...
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... short length of Unity , must be pretty well convinced that Mr. Stebbings will find " life in the old horse yet . ' Clincher is a very fine tall horse ; but looks long and very weak on his legs . He is a most delicate and difficult horse ...
... short length of Unity , must be pretty well convinced that Mr. Stebbings will find " life in the old horse yet . ' Clincher is a very fine tall horse ; but looks long and very weak on his legs . He is a most delicate and difficult horse ...
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... short and pithy contents my surmises as to its authorship . I give it verbatim , as a despatch concise , peremptory , and to the point ; — - " Topthorne Lodge , August the " DEAR SIR , -Understanding from my sister that you have kindly ...
... short and pithy contents my surmises as to its authorship . I give it verbatim , as a despatch concise , peremptory , and to the point ; — - " Topthorne Lodge , August the " DEAR SIR , -Understanding from my sister that you have kindly ...
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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...