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" ... of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without... "
A History of the County of Surrey: Comprising Every Object of Topographical ... - Page 93
by Thomas Allen - 1831
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Early London Theatres: in the Fields

Thomas Fairman Ordish - Theater - 1894 - 330 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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The Elizabethan Hamlet: A Study of the Sources, and of Shaksperes̓ ...

John Corbin - 1895 - 138 pages
...they are fastned behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan ...

Dodgson Hamilton Madden - Literary Criticism - 1897 - 408 pages
...country for the purpose of baiting' (Adagia). Hentzner (1598) writes of the bear-garden at Bankside as ' another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which...and the teeth of the other, and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan ...

Dodgson Hamilton Madden - Literary Criticism - 1897 - 408 pages
...(1598) writes of the bear-garden at Bankside as ' another place, built in the form of a Theatre, wjjiich serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears. They are...and the teeth of the other, and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan ...

Dodgson Hamilton Madden - Hunting - 1907 - 440 pages
...-writes of the bear-garden at Bankside as ' another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serve* for the baiting of Bulls and Bears. They are fastened...and the teeth of the other, and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those which are...
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The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan ...

Dodgson Hamilton Madden - Literary Criticism - 1897 - 404 pages
...' another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears. 1 They are fastened behind, and then worried by great...and the teeth of the other, and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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The Love of an Uncrowned Queen: Sophie Dorothea, Consort of George I., and ...

William Henry Wilkins - 1900 - 410 pages
...bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without risque to the dogs from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other, and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our ...

John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without great risque to the Dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded,...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the Earliest Period ...

Joseph Strutt - England - 1801 - 474 pages
...bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded...
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A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: The Shakespearean ...

Karl Mantzius - Theater - 1904 - 302 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bulldogs, but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are...
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