The New sporting magazine, Volume 231852 |
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... nature in the year of the Great Exhibition . It has been urged that such establishments have an immoral tendency , and the more safe they are , serve only the more to foster the spirit of speculation and excitement so fatally alluring ...
... nature in the year of the Great Exhibition . It has been urged that such establishments have an immoral tendency , and the more safe they are , serve only the more to foster the spirit of speculation and excitement so fatally alluring ...
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... natural and artificial characteristics of the English racer . I take leave to refer to my views of these two accountable events , given in the May number of this work . After stating that Hernandez won the Two Thousand " cleverly by a ...
... natural and artificial characteristics of the English racer . I take leave to refer to my views of these two accountable events , given in the May number of this work . After stating that Hernandez won the Two Thousand " cleverly by a ...
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... nature was capable of training on except the President of the French Republic ! Why was the White- wall champion ... natural bias . George Marlow , got - up for a ride on the Flying Dutchman , must look like the inhabitant of another ...
... nature was capable of training on except the President of the French Republic ! Why was the White- wall champion ... natural bias . George Marlow , got - up for a ride on the Flying Dutchman , must look like the inhabitant of another ...
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... natural philosophy how the two St. Leger heats which got the victor so exactly up to the mark to meet The Dutchman on ... nature . Not the least instructive of his apophthegms are those in which , inspired by the affection of a father as ...
... natural philosophy how the two St. Leger heats which got the victor so exactly up to the mark to meet The Dutchman on ... nature . Not the least instructive of his apophthegms are those in which , inspired by the affection of a father as ...
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... natural coquetry that had grown with her from her cradle , but likewise doubly and trebly fortified with that dangerous ... nature nor education was I fitted for the task of controlling a violent six- year - old plater through two ...
... natural coquetry that had grown with her from her cradle , but likewise doubly and trebly fortified with that dangerous ... nature nor education was I fitted for the task of controlling a violent six- year - old plater through two ...
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Page 158 - Hath seal'd thee for herself : for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 162 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 319 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 223 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep : Thus runs the world away.
Page 206 - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
Page 379 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 404 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Page 25 - Bring forth the horse !' — the horse was brought ; In truth he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs : but he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and untaught, With spur and bridle Undefiled...
Page 379 - Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! Each stamps its image as the other flies. Each, as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades; yet all, with magic art, Control the latent fibres of the heart.
Page 152 - ... a notice of such forfeit being due, with the name of the subscriber to the stake, and the name or description of the horse, with the name, or sufficient description of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit, shall be advertised in...