Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... story had got about , and several mutual friends told the business man that the joke was being carried too far , with the result that he eventually agreed that it was time for him to reap his crop the next day . He would , he so ...
... story had got about , and several mutual friends told the business man that the joke was being carried too far , with the result that he eventually agreed that it was time for him to reap his crop the next day . He would , he so ...
Էջ 25
... story was curious . He was educated in a charity school at Oxford , from which he was taken into a hairdresser's establishment as an apprentice . After remaining there the usual time , he took a shop of his own , and having saved a ...
... story was curious . He was educated in a charity school at Oxford , from which he was taken into a hairdresser's establishment as an apprentice . After remaining there the usual time , he took a shop of his own , and having saved a ...
Էջ 30
... Heroded the wildest of Eastern legends . After dinner , while yet the ladies remained at table , was the time generally selected for these stories . The baron , who probably never possessed a shilling of 30 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... Heroded the wildest of Eastern legends . After dinner , while yet the ladies remained at table , was the time generally selected for these stories . The baron , who probably never possessed a shilling of 30 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 84
... story . " As a young man I was , I fear , very wild ; being very rich I plunged into all sorts of dissipations , drank hard , and played deep . One night , being palpably cheated of a large sum , I detected my rascal - called him out ...
... story . " As a young man I was , I fear , very wild ; being very rich I plunged into all sorts of dissipations , drank hard , and played deep . One night , being palpably cheated of a large sum , I detected my rascal - called him out ...
Էջ 85
... ; but not being able to recover from an artful feint I had made , he put in an expert lunge in carte , over arm , and KILLED ME ! " The boaster , for whose correction the story was invented 85 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... ; but not being able to recover from an artful feint I had made , he put in an expert lunge in carte , over arm , and KILLED ME ! " The boaster , for whose correction the story was invented 85 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
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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...