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... hunting offered many attractions to one whose professional labours forbade him to yield to stronger tempta- tions presented by Irish sport during the working months of the year . Again and again I revisited those happy hunting grounds ...
... hunting offered many attractions to one whose professional labours forbade him to yield to stronger tempta- tions presented by Irish sport during the working months of the year . Again and again I revisited those happy hunting grounds ...
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... hunting , the baying , and the breaking up of the hart . The hounds were of necessity Master Robert Shallow's , and the tale was naturally told by Master William Silence , the lettered member of the family group . " Thus attracted to ...
... hunting , the baying , and the breaking up of the hart . The hounds were of necessity Master Robert Shallow's , and the tale was naturally told by Master William Silence , the lettered member of the family group . " Thus attracted to ...
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... hunting field . The name of one only of the company thus assembled can be stated with absolute certainty , for he has recorded the incidents of each sport with an accuracy unattainable even to the highest genius save by actual ...
... hunting field . The name of one only of the company thus assembled can be stated with absolute certainty , for he has recorded the incidents of each sport with an accuracy unattainable even to the highest genius save by actual ...
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... hunting at force , and hawk- ing , that I cannot make head or tail of . But the fellow is no sportsman , for he calls the hounds ' dogs , ' and says a fox may be killed by gins , snares , as well as by hunting , so that you get rid of ...
... hunting at force , and hawk- ing , that I cannot make head or tail of . But the fellow is no sportsman , for he calls the hounds ' dogs , ' and says a fox may be killed by gins , snares , as well as by hunting , so that you get rid of ...
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... hunters . Titus Andronicus proclaims a solemn hunting after the fashion of Gloucestershire . Egyptians , Athenians , and Romans are intimately acquainted with the coursing matches of Cotswold . Roderigo of Venice and Pandarus of Troy ...
... hunters . Titus Andronicus proclaims a solemn hunting after the fashion of Gloucestershire . Egyptians , Athenians , and Romans are intimately acquainted with the coursing matches of Cotswold . Roderigo of Venice and Pandarus of Troy ...
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Page 265 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood, If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 166 - As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
Page 19 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 60 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 240 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 292 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 181 - For there his smell with others being mingled, The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt, Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled With much ado the cold fault cleanly out ; Then do they spend their mouths : Echo replies, As if another chase were in the skies.
Page 71 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 127 - What maids lack from head to heel : • Come, buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy ; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come, buy, Sac.
Page 258 - Round-hoofd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.