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" There is still another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without great... "
A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII. - Page 21
by Paul Hentzner - 1807 - 61 pages
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Poetaster, Issues 27-28

Ben Jonson - Poets, Latin - 1616 - 418 pages
...Poetaster. AD 32. Beares-Colledge. ie Bear-garden, on the Bank-side. Cf. Hentzner, Acct. of Eng. p. 42 : 'There is still another place, built in the form of...dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied...
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A vindication of natural society, by Edm. Burke. The history and antiquities ...

Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pages
...they are faftened behind, and then worried by great Englijh Bull-dogs ; but not without great Rifque to the Dogs, from the Horns of the One, and the Teeth of the other ; and it fometimes happens they are killed upon the Spot ; frcfh ones are immediately fupplfed...
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Paul Hentzner's Travels in England: During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton - Great Britain - 1797 - 204 pages
...they are faftened behind, and then worried by great Englifh bull-dogs, but not without great rifque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it fometimes happens they are killed upon the fpot ; frefli ones are immediately fupplied...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...these exhibitions, which he describes in the following manner : speaking of the theatres he says, " there is still another place, built in the form of...dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...of these exhibitions, which he circumstantially describes. Speaking of the Theatres, he says, — " There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of hull* and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - England - 1823 - 680 pages
...glass windows, painting, and gilding ; it is kept upon dry ground, and sheltered from the weather. There is still another place, built in the form of...dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon (he spot : fresh ones are immediately supplied...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...of these exhibitions, which he circumstantially describes. Speaking of the Theatre«, he says, — " There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bull* and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 3

Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...before quoted, gives the following particulars of the sports at Paris Garden, in London. There is a place built" in the form of a theatre, which serves...by great English bull-dogs; but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 57

1869 - 514 pages
...furnish an ample account of the cruelties practised during the days of the Virgin Queen : " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bears and bulls ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without...
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A History of the County of Surrey: Comprising Every Object of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 390 pages
...; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens that they are killed on the spot, but fresh ones are immediately...
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