Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... boxer . He fought a sturdy butcher once in the middle of Pall Mall , when the butcher , deceived by Duff's appearance , received a severe thrashing . At times Lord Waterford was foolhardy almost beyond belief . On board his yacht , the ...
... boxer . He fought a sturdy butcher once in the middle of Pall Mall , when the butcher , deceived by Duff's appearance , received a severe thrashing . At times Lord Waterford was foolhardy almost beyond belief . On board his yacht , the ...
Էջ 118
... fatal to his purse , and during four years cost him some hundred thousand pounds , after which he set out to better his judgment with the most abandoned boxers , and adopted both the principles and 118 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... fatal to his purse , and during four years cost him some hundred thousand pounds , after which he set out to better his judgment with the most abandoned boxers , and adopted both the principles and 118 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 119
Ralph Nevill. most abandoned boxers , and adopted both the principles and practice of his Bohemian friends and contemporaries . These necessitous and rapacious sharks , having once secured the weak side of this reckless peer , never ...
Ralph Nevill. most abandoned boxers , and adopted both the principles and practice of his Bohemian friends and contemporaries . These necessitous and rapacious sharks , having once secured the weak side of this reckless peer , never ...
Էջ 164
... boxing booths at fairs , and a regular prize - fight not unusually closed the day's entertainment . As a rule the local champion fared badly at the hands of the Fancy , one or two of whom were generally ready to fight all comers for a ...
... boxing booths at fairs , and a regular prize - fight not unusually closed the day's entertainment . As a rule the local champion fared badly at the hands of the Fancy , one or two of whom were generally ready to fight all comers for a ...
Էջ 165
... boxer had much the best of the contest , but after some rounds , by accident rather than design , he received a blow which felled him like an ox , with the result that he could not be brought to time , and the youth was declared the ...
... boxer had much the best of the contest , but after some rounds , by accident rather than design , he received a blow which felled him like an ox , with the result that he could not be brought to time , and the youth was declared 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...