 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
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
..."There is still another place, built in (he form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulb ond w bul not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 430 pages
...deseription, when speaking of theatres near London, he says — " There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened bchind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...of this work. Hentzner, in his Travels in England, ed. 175", p. 42, says : " There is a 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 they... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Dogs - 1857 - 344 pages
...in Latin, in the year 1598 :— " 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 Bulldogs; but not without risk to the dogs from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...Paul Hentzner, a German, who visited it in 1598. He says it was " built " in the form of a theatre, for the baiting of bulls and bears : they are fastened...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 they... | |
 | Illustrated sketches - 1864 - 364 pages
...speaks of the Bulls and Bears having been " worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without 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 and tired."... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - England - 1865 - 462 pages
...carving; it is kept upon dry ground, and 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 those great English dogs (quos lingua... | |
 | Albert Cohn - 1865 - 376 pages
...which are built of wood, lies the Royal Barge close to the river &c 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 bulldogs etc."2 The ambassadors... | |
 | 514 pages
...There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which servos for the baiting of bears and bulls ; 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 they... | |
 | John Potter Briscoe - 1876 - 76 pages
...country in 1698, thus describes the place and brutal sport of bear baiting :— " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting...the other : and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot. Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired. To... | |
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