 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 risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and...  Poetaster - Page 236by Ben Jonson - 1905 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 606 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...manner: speaking of the theatre, he says, "There is slill another place, built in the form of a Ihealre, o default, Never presume to sit above the salt : Third,...all common courtesies : Sit hare at meales, and o ibc horns of the one, and the leeih of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 420 pages
...present at one of the performances: " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind,...worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 492 pages
...present at one of the performances: "There is a place built ;n »lip form of a theatre, which serves for baiting of bulls and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; hut not without risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 604 pages
...built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the bailing of bulls and bears ; they are fastentd 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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...they are fastened hehind, and then worried hy great English hull-dogs ; hut not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth...the other : and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...gilding ; it is kept upon dry ground, ana sheltered from the weather. There is still another 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...bears ; they arc fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but и* '• ь out great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other : and it ' •times happens they are killed on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the Afilióse... | |
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