Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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Էջ 175
... Spring , but was , after much conversation with his officers , dissuaded from so doing . Prominent pugilists excited so much interest that instances of personation were not rare . In 1809 a man arrived at Yarmouth who announced himself ...
... Spring , but was , after much conversation with his officers , dissuaded from so doing . Prominent pugilists excited so much interest that instances of personation were not rare . In 1809 a man arrived at Yarmouth who announced himself ...
Էջ 184
... Spring . Here was instituted the Daffy Club , as the assemblage of all the prominent prize - fighters was called ... Spring , Neat , Hickman , Painter , Scroggins , and countless other pillars of the ring . In 1827 Belcher retired ...
... Spring . Here was instituted the Daffy Club , as the assemblage of all the prominent prize - fighters was called ... Spring , Neat , Hickman , Painter , Scroggins , and countless other pillars of the ring . In 1827 Belcher retired ...
Էջ 185
Ralph Nevill. Spring ( whose real name was Winter ) . Spring , who boasted the proud title of being the immediate successor of Cribb , as Champion of England , prospered at the " Castle " many years . Cribb presided at the meeting held ...
Ralph Nevill. Spring ( whose real name was Winter ) . Spring , who boasted the proud title of being the immediate successor of Cribb , as Champion of England , prospered at the " Castle " many years . Cribb presided at the meeting held ...
Էջ 197
... friends , or the coronation champion himself . Josh's motion was at length carried by a ruse . While several of the members had retired to arrange about including Spring's name in the list , the 197 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... friends , or the coronation champion himself . Josh's motion was at length carried by a ruse . While several of the members had retired to arrange about including Spring's name in the list , the 197 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 198
... equipped for the occasion in a gorgeous costume of scarlet with a blue sash . VII WHILST most of the old prize - fighters are 198 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways arrange about including Spring's name in the list, the ...
... equipped for the occasion in a gorgeous costume of scarlet with a blue sash . VII WHILST most of the old prize - fighters are 198 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways arrange about including Spring's name in the list, the ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...