The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 19John William Carleton 1848 |
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... doubt . Our affair is with Ascot , the royal races ..... The weather was glorious , and the sport was every way worthy being " set before a Queen . " The gala days are the first and third , those devoted to business the second and 4 THE ...
... doubt . Our affair is with Ascot , the royal races ..... The weather was glorious , and the sport was every way worthy being " set before a Queen . " The gala days are the first and third , those devoted to business the second and 4 THE ...
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... doubts if so many ever started anywhere , since the Olympic games . Fit closing comment on the handicap : it was won by ... doubt but that the last great handicap of the season was won by the most valueless screw among the party ; and we ...
... doubts if so many ever started anywhere , since the Olympic games . Fit closing comment on the handicap : it was won by ... doubt but that the last great handicap of the season was won by the most valueless screw among the party ; and we ...
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... doubt waiting for that little bit of a rousing you ought to have afforded him . Prophecy after an event , however , is unbecoming in any man but a turf oracle ; yet still , next time take our advice , or Dick Knight's , if you think ...
... doubt waiting for that little bit of a rousing you ought to have afforded him . Prophecy after an event , however , is unbecoming in any man but a turf oracle ; yet still , next time take our advice , or Dick Knight's , if you think ...
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... doubts which we have no means of elucidating . Ever since the visit of that mysterious old Crone of Thorpe Glen , I ... doubt if we are of it . That you are an angel , I am sure , ' said Fitz- george , playfully ; " and that I am some ...
... doubts which we have no means of elucidating . Ever since the visit of that mysterious old Crone of Thorpe Glen , I ... doubt if we are of it . That you are an angel , I am sure , ' said Fitz- george , playfully ; " and that I am some ...
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... doubt it is true , but the owner of the game is minus so much money in conse- quence . He would not give away the corn in case his game was gone ; he would sell it , and if he chooses to pay a certain price , viz . , the value of the ...
... doubt it is true , but the owner of the game is minus so much money in conse- quence . He would not give away the corn in case his game was gone ; he would sell it , and if he chooses to pay a certain price , viz . , the value of the ...
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Page 281 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
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Page 73 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the...
Page 131 - Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant gray!
Page 129 - LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Page 129 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. And so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
Page 265 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage...
Page 175 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 133 - When we consider that all coachmen, grooms, jockeys, " et hoc genus omne," stop, have stopped, and will stop at inns until time or ale is no more, no surprise need be excited at their thinking what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander...
Page 366 - Beholding all, yet of them unespyde. There' he did see that pleased much his sight, That even he...