The cricket-field. By J. Pycroft1873 |
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1st Inn A. N. Hornby Absolom Appleby Bathurst batsman Beagley Beauclerk Beldham bowler Buchanan Budd Burbidge Byes C. D. Marsham C. G. Lyttelton Cæsar Caffyn Carpenter catch Clarke Cricket Daft delivery Eleven England fast fast bowling Fennex field fieldsman forward play Gentlemen Griffith ground Grundy habit Hambledon Club Hampshire hand Haygarth Hayward Hillyer hitter inches J. C. Shaw Jackson Jupp Kent Lambert length Lilly white Lillywhite Lockyer long hop long-stop Lord Frederick Lord Frederick Beauclerk Lord's Lyttelton Maitland Martingell match Miller Mynn never Nicholson Off-hits old players pace Parr Payne Pilch pitch play forward Players winning Ponsonby Pooley practise score shooter side Silcock slow ball slow bowling Southerton spin Stephenson straight stumps Surrey Tarrant throw Traill V. E. Walker W. G. Grace Ward White Conduit Fields wicket wicket-keeper Willsher Wisden Wootton wrist Zingari
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Page 28 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 39 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
Page 40 - ... had tricked it out for themselves : up two pair of stairs is what they call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lame telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here, and instituted certain games called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honour of him in a neighbouring meadow.
Page 7 - ... steadiness of mind to pursue his own interest through all impediments that were thrown in the way. He began to leave off some of his old acquaintance, his roaring and bullying about the streets. He put on a serious air, knit his brows, and, for the time, had made a very considerable progress in politics, considering that he had been kept a stranger to his own affairs. However, he could not help discovering some remains of his nature when he happened to meet with a football or a match at cricket,...
Page 81 - He would bring it from under his arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit, and with this action push it, as it were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode of delivery, I never could comprehend.
Page 60 - Cricket-matches did excite the warmest interest, undoubtedly : — " Would it not be extremely odd to see lords and gentlemen, clergymen and lawyers, associating themselves with, butchers and cobblers in pursuit of their diversions...
Page 1 - ... they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, ninepins, shovelboard,* cricket...
Page 30 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 9 - Orange, which of course put a stop to our game. Though the hero of the Peninsula was not apt to let his movements be known, on this occasion he made no secret that, if he were attacked from the south, Halle would be his position, and if on the Namur side, WATERLOO.