The New sporting magazine, Volumen221851 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 86
Página 4
... sport full of excellent promise for the future - we will take up the racing of the past month as befits it with the precedence due to royalty . The courtly meeting on Ascot Heath commenced on the 3rd ult . Before we turn to the details ...
... sport full of excellent promise for the future - we will take up the racing of the past month as befits it with the precedence due to royalty . The courtly meeting on Ascot Heath commenced on the 3rd ult . Before we turn to the details ...
Página 5
... sports - - we say ; knowing that , if we do not lie outright , it is a miserable quibble . Of all surviving manly sports ' racing is the one that has in it the least of manliness : a sport performed by deputy , with all its excitement ...
... sports - - we say ; knowing that , if we do not lie outright , it is a miserable quibble . Of all surviving manly sports ' racing is the one that has in it the least of manliness : a sport performed by deputy , with all its excitement ...
Página 6
... sport not of a character to set before a court . People were plentiful enough , for with all the world on a visit to us , such a rendezvous could not fail in the matter of multitude . Moreover , Her Majesty honoured the revels with her ...
... sport not of a character to set before a court . People were plentiful enough , for with all the world on a visit to us , such a rendezvous could not fail in the matter of multitude . Moreover , Her Majesty honoured the revels with her ...
Página 7
... sport not of a character to set before a court . People were plentiful enough , for with all the world on a visit to us , such a rendezvous could not fail in the matter of multitude . Moreover , Her Majesty honoured the revels with her ...
... sport not of a character to set before a court . People were plentiful enough , for with all the world on a visit to us , such a rendezvous could not fail in the matter of multitude . Moreover , Her Majesty honoured the revels with her ...
Página 10
... sport does not call for note or comment . Contemporary with Hampton was the summer meeting at Manchester . There cannot be a more appropriate introduction to it than the statement that , after deducting £45 “ for expenses , " the net ...
... sport does not call for note or comment . Contemporary with Hampton was the summer meeting at Manchester . There cannot be a more appropriate introduction to it than the statement that , after deducting £45 “ for expenses , " the net ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
50 sovs added agst allowed 3lb animal appearance beat called Capt carry Charlton colts 8st course Deer Derby distance Duke easily entered expenses extra favourite field fillies 8st fish five years old Flatman four 8st four years old geldings allowed give half half a length half-bred Handicap head heats hunting John Lady late length look Lord mares and geldings meeting mile Miss neck never old 7st once Osborne owner Plate present Produce quarters race ride round season second and third second horse seen Sharp side six and aged six years old sold sors sport Stakes Stand starting subscribers Sweepstakes three years old turn upwards walked weights winner paid young
Pasajes populares
Página 5 - Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Página 13 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Página 125 - And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits and the noise Of princes' Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook...
Página 125 - There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun both rise and set : There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away : And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Página 20 - Moselekatse, had neither herd nor stall, but subsisted on locusts, roots, and the chase. They adopted this mode of architecture to escape the lions which abounded in the country. During the day the families descended to the shade beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load, they removed these for firewood.
Página 211 - ... —the Stewards of the Jockey Club have decided that where a sum of money is given to be run for, without any stake being made by the owners of the horses...
Página 125 - I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, "that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.
Página 13 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 18 - ... had not slept long when my light dreams were influenced by strange sounds. I dreamt that lions were rushing about in quest of me, and, the sounds increasing, I awoke with a sudden start, uttering a loud shriek. I could not for several seconds remember in what part of the world I was, or any thing connected with my present position.
Página 389 - But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry.