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Page 11 - Therfore he was a prickasoure a right: Greihoundes he hadde as swift as foul of flight: Of pricking and of hunting for the hare Was all his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.
Page 360 - ... for Practical Purposes and Practical Men : being a Guide to the Choice of a Horse for use more than for show. By HABBY HIEOVEB. With 2 Plates — One representing A pretty good sort for most purposes ; the other, Rayther a bad sot tfor any purpose.
Page 261 - Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting — it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
Page 360 - HARRY HIEOVER.- STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK; or, SPECTACLES for YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
Page 13 - Her majesty," says a courtier, writing to Sir Robert Sidney, " is well and excellently disposed to hunting, for every second day she is on horseback and continues the sport...
Page 361 - THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER in the Counties of Devon and Somerset. With an APPENDIX descriptive of Remarkable Runs and Incidents connected with the Chase, from the year 1780 to the year 1860.
Page 359 - Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports; or, a complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, and other Field Sports and Athletic Amusements of the present day.
Page 24 - Grins fell destruction, to the monster's heart Let the dart lighten from the nervous arm. These Britain knows not ; give, ye Britons, then Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold; Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Page 362 - Cecil. — The Stud Farm ; or, Hints on Breeding Horses for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road.
Page 358 - Observations on Fox-Hunting, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS IN THE KENNEL AND THE FIELD. Addressed to A Young Sportsman, about to Undertake a Hunting Establishment.