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... turned out to be the El Dorado of which voyagers write and readers doubted ; and that the Sub - marine Telegraph is the apotheosis of Sir Boyle Roche's bird . Essayists must say something of the Great Exhibition : they will find matter ...
... turned out to be the El Dorado of which voyagers write and readers doubted ; and that the Sub - marine Telegraph is the apotheosis of Sir Boyle Roche's bird . Essayists must say something of the Great Exhibition : they will find matter ...
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... Turning from the theory to the practice of our great national sport , do we find the mission of the schoolmaster complete ? For a light upon this part of our subject , we will antici- pate the Doncaster Cup case : infandum renovare ...
... Turning from the theory to the practice of our great national sport , do we find the mission of the schoolmaster complete ? For a light upon this part of our subject , we will antici- pate the Doncaster Cup case : infandum renovare ...
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... turned on this fact : -Did Sir J. Hawley start two horses for this cup of which he was wholly or in part the owner ? As Sir J. Hawley gave his word of honour that he sold Vatican to Mr. Morris before the race , the question was answered ...
... turned on this fact : -Did Sir J. Hawley start two horses for this cup of which he was wholly or in part the owner ? As Sir J. Hawley gave his word of honour that he sold Vatican to Mr. Morris before the race , the question was answered ...
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... turned to profit I cannot conscientiously point out , having a vivid fear of Peter Pindar's story of the ostler and ... turning his back upon ten thousand a year ; and Lord Glasgow is as full of running as the T.Y.C. ! There is nothing ...
... turned to profit I cannot conscientiously point out , having a vivid fear of Peter Pindar's story of the ostler and ... turning his back upon ten thousand a year ; and Lord Glasgow is as full of running as the T.Y.C. ! There is nothing ...
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... turned loose for the Grand Stand Plate at Epsom . Vatican seems to have lost all his ill - temper , which is rather remark- able , considering the incessant wear - and - tear to which the private tutoring of Sir Joseph's crack three ...
... turned loose for the Grand Stand Plate at Epsom . Vatican seems to have lost all his ill - temper , which is rather remark- able , considering the incessant wear - and - tear to which the private tutoring of Sir Joseph's crack three ...
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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...