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... less . The two principal events Lord George Bentinck won -the Sweepstakes with Moonshine , a cruel ugly filly , subsequently bought by Squire Osbaldeston ; and the Surrey Cup Handicap with Croton Oil ........ Friday , which gave us the ...
... less . The two principal events Lord George Bentinck won -the Sweepstakes with Moonshine , a cruel ugly filly , subsequently bought by Squire Osbaldeston ; and the Surrey Cup Handicap with Croton Oil ........ Friday , which gave us the ...
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... less . The two principal events Lord George Bentinck won -the Sweepstakes with Moonshine , a cruel ugly filly , subsequently bought by Squire Osbaldeston ; and the Surrey Cup Handicap with Croton Oil ........ Friday , which gave us the ...
... less . The two principal events Lord George Bentinck won -the Sweepstakes with Moonshine , a cruel ugly filly , subsequently bought by Squire Osbaldeston ; and the Surrey Cup Handicap with Croton Oil ........ Friday , which gave us the ...
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... less brilliant . All the world was in town , and nineteen- twentieths of it went to Ascot . It was a worthy successor of the Bal poudré , where fashion held its revels in the full dress of our great grand - parents : to my thinking ...
... less brilliant . All the world was in town , and nineteen- twentieths of it went to Ascot . It was a worthy successor of the Bal poudré , where fashion held its revels in the full dress of our great grand - parents : to my thinking ...
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... less numerous ; but the people were innumerable . At the hour prescribed soon after one - the royal cortège entered the course , and , with a most animating reception , passed up it . As usual , the cavalcade was a gorgeous one , the ...
... less numerous ; but the people were innumerable . At the hour prescribed soon after one - the royal cortège entered the course , and , with a most animating reception , passed up it . As usual , the cavalcade was a gorgeous one , the ...
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... less than sixty feet in diameter , ran a brisk rivulet of the clearest water , containing every sort and size of the finest river fish . On one side loads of game and venison were heaped up ; on the other , vegetables and fruits in ...
... less than sixty feet in diameter , ran a brisk rivulet of the clearest water , containing every sort and size of the finest river fish . On one side loads of game and venison were heaped up ; on the other , vegetables and fruits in ...
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Page 43 - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute...
Page 39 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 166 - ... which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday the 1st of July, when he and I and Dr.
Page 384 - HARRY HIEOVER.- STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK; or, SPECTACLES for YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
Page 259 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 228 - And lonely the dark raven's sheltering tree ; And travelled by few is the grass-covered road, Where the hunter of deer and the warrior trode To his hills that encircle the sea.
Page 60 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 356 - And turned him from the opposing rock ; Then, dashing down a darksome glen, Soon lost to hound and hunter's ken, In the deep Trosach's wildest nook His solitary refuge took.
Page 35 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 116 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves 'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms, Green to the...