The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Band 31John William Carleton 1854 |
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... thought flogging made the scholar , just as dress made the gentleman : and precicus dandies , as well as dunces , some of us afterwards turned out . Happy would it have been for Green , had he gone to school some twenty years later ; so ...
... thought flogging made the scholar , just as dress made the gentleman : and precicus dandies , as well as dunces , some of us afterwards turned out . Happy would it have been for Green , had he gone to school some twenty years later ; so ...
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... thought you could not live without her . She sleeps at Torquay ; but you go out to dinner pretty regularly still . Blanche has now got a false front and two grown - up daughters ; but your heart did nor leap into your mouth when you met ...
... thought you could not live without her . She sleeps at Torquay ; but you go out to dinner pretty regularly still . Blanche has now got a false front and two grown - up daughters ; but your heart did nor leap into your mouth when you met ...
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... thought he must have been taken ill . Had the matter rested here , it would merely have added one more to the many stories current in ridicule of my friend ; but the Major , who was , in his own line , a blockhead of the first water ...
... thought he must have been taken ill . Had the matter rested here , it would merely have added one more to the many stories current in ridicule of my friend ; but the Major , who was , in his own line , a blockhead of the first water ...
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... thought of him , it was as of one who must now be changed like everything else around me , and though I per- ceived it not , doubtless like my own self . I had been out of Eng- land for years ; and forty summers , spent I fear in vain ...
... thought of him , it was as of one who must now be changed like everything else around me , and though I per- ceived it not , doubtless like my own self . I had been out of Eng- land for years ; and forty summers , spent I fear in vain ...
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... thought it expedient to retire from the scene . I never sleep well after dry champagne ; and Grace's black eyes haunted me the livelong night , till I almost began to doubt whether my restlessness originated in the sto- mach or the ...
... thought it expedient to retire from the scene . I never sleep well after dry champagne ; and Grace's black eyes haunted me the livelong night , till I almost began to doubt whether my restlessness originated in the sto- mach or the ...
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Seite 358 - Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe ; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
Seite 259 - You conceive that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well...
Seite 80 - ... the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Seite 157 - ... betting with persons resorting thereto ; or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner...
Seite 239 - Stakes, to carry 71ba. extra ; those by stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner allowed 31bs. ; Ditch Mile.
Seite 153 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 117 - For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. The hare in pastures or in plains is found, Emblem of human life ; who runs the round, And, after all his wandering ways are done, His circle fills, and ends where he begun, Just as the setting meets the rising sun.
Seite 461 - Like birds whose beauties languish, half concealed, Till mounted on the wing their glossy plumes Expanded, shine with azure, green, and gold, How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! 3.
Seite 157 - No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the same, or any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such owner, occupier, or keeper, or person using the same, or of any person having the care or management or in any manner conducting the business thereof betting with persons resorting thereto...
Seite 446 - Approach : behold this marble. Know ye not The features? Hath not oft his faithful tongue Told you the fashion of your own estate, The secrets of your bosom?