The New sporting magazine, Volume 171849 |
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... less flattering views of the probable effects of this new ally of the turf . It is obviously the design of the ring to make it as complete an instrument of professional betting as racing . All the events of that description of any ...
... less flattering views of the probable effects of this new ally of the turf . It is obviously the design of the ring to make it as complete an instrument of professional betting as racing . All the events of that description of any ...
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... less on what you do than what you say . Be hypocritical , be cautious , be Not what you seem , but always what you see . " The episodes of racing policy will ever constitute a sea of speculation , whereon enterprize shall find its ...
... less on what you do than what you say . Be hypocritical , be cautious , be Not what you seem , but always what you see . " The episodes of racing policy will ever constitute a sea of speculation , whereon enterprize shall find its ...
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... less in amount - are Mr. Benjamin Green's nominations . The former , now the property of Lord Clifden , represents the ancien regime of racing ; the latter its commercial , or modern interests . I do not contend for the legitimacy of ...
... less in amount - are Mr. Benjamin Green's nominations . The former , now the property of Lord Clifden , represents the ancien regime of racing ; the latter its commercial , or modern interests . I do not contend for the legitimacy of ...
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... Less betting , gentlemen , and better sport to ye ! -there's many a worse new - year's gift than that has found cordial acceptance . In the session whose sitting will commence next month , the game- laws are to undergo another ...
... Less betting , gentlemen , and better sport to ye ! -there's many a worse new - year's gift than that has found cordial acceptance . In the session whose sitting will commence next month , the game- laws are to undergo another ...
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... less than they were . Less horseflesh is required by the foxhunter . The moor- shooter can seek his pleasure in the land of brown heath upon as reason- able terms as heretofore he accomplished a morning on the Brighton Chain Pier . For ...
... less than they were . Less horseflesh is required by the foxhunter . The moor- shooter can seek his pleasure in the land of brown heath upon as reason- able terms as heretofore he accomplished a morning on the Brighton Chain Pier . For ...
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Page 136 - For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.
Page 118 - tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Page 83 - Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding and many dangers accompany them; but this is still and quiet: and if so be the angler catch no Fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the...
Page 152 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 118 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my friend it turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthen'd chain.
Page 83 - Silesia, he found a nobleman, 'booted up to the groins,' wading himself, pulling the nets, and labouring as much as any fisherman of them all: and when some belike objected to him the baseness of his office, he excused himself, 'that if other men might hunt hares, why should not he hunt carps?
Page 135 - What would that philosopher have said had he been present at the gluttony of a modern meal? Would not he have thought the master of a family mad, and have begged his servants to tie down his hands, had he seen him devour fowl, fish, and flesh...
Page 7 - Carpe diem,' Juan, 'Carpe, carpe!' To-morrow sees another race as gay And transient, and devoured by the same harpy. 'Life's a poor player,' - then 'play out the play, Ye villains!' and above all keep a sharp eye Much less on what you do than what you say: Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.
Page 371 - Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is at home.
Page 60 - ... love is none below) : As often as my dogs with better speed "" Arrest her flight, is she to death decreed : Then with this fatal sword, on which I...