Sporting Magazine, Volume 21Rogerson & Tuxford, 1803 - Hunting |
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... Lady E. her Accident Connolly , Right Hon . Thomas , Anecdote of 78 25 26 ........... 27 28 30 ... 31 ....... 32 Vagrant's Guide in Wiltshire ........ 27 Fille de Chambre ; or , the Fair Dreamer A Road Race ; or Mrs. Potter and the ...
... Lady E. her Accident Connolly , Right Hon . Thomas , Anecdote of 78 25 26 ........... 27 28 30 ... 31 ....... 32 Vagrant's Guide in Wiltshire ........ 27 Fille de Chambre ; or , the Fair Dreamer A Road Race ; or Mrs. Potter and the ...
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... LADY EDWARD BENTINCK . WE 7E are happy in stating , that Lady Edward Bentinck is as well as her friends could wish her after the late accident she met with . The following account may be de- pended on as more authentic than any which ...
... LADY EDWARD BENTINCK . WE 7E are happy in stating , that Lady Edward Bentinck is as well as her friends could wish her after the late accident she met with . The following account may be de- pended on as more authentic than any which ...
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... lady , of about se- venty - five , wants a stout , good looking , experienced young man , and I have offered my services - so , if she should chance to call for my character , why your Honour knows what to say . Sir W. P. Indeed I do ...
... lady , of about se- venty - five , wants a stout , good looking , experienced young man , and I have offered my services - so , if she should chance to call for my character , why your Honour knows what to say . Sir W. P. Indeed I do ...
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... lady in so fine an equipage , so well upto his own slung ; and fearing the odds were too much against him to enter into a contest with the baggage and escort , he retreated home but immediately saddled a fleet courser , and pursued ...
... lady in so fine an equipage , so well upto his own slung ; and fearing the odds were too much against him to enter into a contest with the baggage and escort , he retreated home but immediately saddled a fleet courser , and pursued ...
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... Lady Heath- cote . Her Ladyship received the melancholy news preparing to dress for the ball at Margate . Sir Walter Farquhar attended ; and , from the report of a Gentleman who accom- panied him , the situation of the un- fortunate ...
... Lady Heath- cote . Her Ladyship received the melancholy news preparing to dress for the ball at Margate . Sir Walter Farquhar attended ; and , from the report of a Gentleman who accom- panied him , the situation of the un- fortunate ...
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Page 152 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; And he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 152 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 250 - His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 240 - In the hole of the desk were store of tobacco-pipes that had been used. On one side of this end of the room was the door of a closet, wherein stood the strong beer and the wine, which never came thence but in single glasses, that being the rule of the house exactly observed, for he never exceeded in drink or permitted it.
Page 251 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Page 250 - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Page 303 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 240 - He drank a glass or two of wine at meals ; very often syrup of giliflower in his sack, and had always a tun glass without feet stood by him, holding a pint of small beer, which he often stirred with rosemary.
Page 250 - When the Creator has therefore separated their nature as far as the extent of the scale of animal life allowed to this planet would permit, it seems perverse to declare it the same, from a partial resemblance of their tusks and bones. But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.
Page 186 - London, and either of the sheriffs, had their several lords of misrule, ever contending, without quarrel or offence, who should make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. These lords beginning their rule on Alhollon eve, continued the same till the morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemas Day.