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... sportsmen of our time . I can say , from personal observation , that there is no man who can extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of horsemen , when a fox breaks covert , more dexterously and quickly than His Royal ...
... sportsmen of our time . I can say , from personal observation , that there is no man who can extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of horsemen , when a fox breaks covert , more dexterously and quickly than His Royal ...
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... sportsman as His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , and I do so with sincere feelings of respect and esteem and loyal devotion . BEAUFORT . BADMINTON PREFACE A FEW LINES only are necessary to explain vi THE POETRY OF SPORT.
... sportsman as His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , and I do so with sincere feelings of respect and esteem and loyal devotion . BEAUFORT . BADMINTON PREFACE A FEW LINES only are necessary to explain vi THE POETRY OF SPORT.
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... sportsmen none fulfilled every essential condition so fully as the Duke of Beaufort , hereditary Master of one of the ... sportsman , and a member of the famous firm of Tattersall's , was a friend of Messrs . Longman , and brought the ...
... sportsmen none fulfilled every essential condition so fully as the Duke of Beaufort , hereditary Master of one of the ... sportsman , and a member of the famous firm of Tattersall's , was a friend of Messrs . Longman , and brought the ...
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... sportsmen of all descriptions who had something to say have been induced to say it in these volumes , whereas had they not been approached and pressed , and in not a few instances over - persuaded after early refusals based on the ...
... sportsmen of all descriptions who had something to say have been induced to say it in these volumes , whereas had they not been approached and pressed , and in not a few instances over - persuaded after early refusals based on the ...
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... sportsman was a very hard business . He had kept diaries . Moreover , Wolff , the famous painter of animals , had drawn various pictures , illustrating scenes described , under the careful supervision of the writer ; but Colonel Oswell ...
... sportsman was a very hard business . He had kept diaries . Moreover , Wolff , the famous painter of animals , had drawn various pictures , illustrating scenes described , under the careful supervision of the writer ; but Colonel Oswell ...
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adowne Angler Archibald Thorburn Badminton ball Ballad beast Beeswing bold Bookey bound boys breath bright brook C. E. Brock C. J. Longman chace chase cheer courser Cricket deer delight dogs doth Duke Duke of Beaufort Earl EDMUND SPENSER ev'ry fair fame fear field fish flies foes forest fresh Hare gallant Gerald Lascelles give green hare Hark hart Haste hath hawk head hear heart hills horn horse hounds Huggins hunters hunting huntsman John Peel Jolly Old Squire leap Lord merry morn mountain ne'er never noble o'er pack pastime plain play pleasure prey prize race resound Reynard ride ring round scent shooting shouts sing song sound speed sportsman stag steed stream sweet swift Tally thee There's thou thro toil trout Trusley Twas Whilst whur wild wind wing woods
Popular passages
Page 123 - THE Stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Page 131 - I heeded not their summons: happy time It was indeed for all of us - for me It was a time of rapture! Clear and loud The village clock tolled six, - I wheeled about, Proud and exulting like an untired horse That cares not for his home. All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate...
Page 180 - MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Page 193 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming, And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green : Now we come to chant our lay,
Page 131 - Tinkled like iron ; while far-distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away. Not seldom from the uproar I retired Into a silent bay, or sportively Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng To cut across the reflex of a star That fled, and, flying still before me, gleamed Upon the glassy plain...
Page 132 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round...
Page 124 - Close in her covert cowered the doe; The falcon, from her cairn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill.
Page 82 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 49 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Page 51 - Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.