Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... character , and the first attempts to impair their sylvan charm were stoutly resisted . When , for instance , a manufactory of some sort or other was established near Twickenham Common , those living in the neighbourhood objected to the ...
... character , and the first attempts to impair their sylvan charm were stoutly resisted . When , for instance , a manufactory of some sort or other was established near Twickenham Common , those living in the neighbourhood objected to the ...
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... character was very popular at one period . According to a tradition prevalent at Limmer's , in Whyte- Melville's time , it was written by Charles and Frank Sheridan , in order to while away a rainy morning . The names of nearly all the ...
... character was very popular at one period . According to a tradition prevalent at Limmer's , in Whyte- Melville's time , it was written by Charles and Frank Sheridan , in order to while away a rainy morning . The names of nearly all the ...
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... characters were in reality no good for any serious work , and , as a wag said , resembled nothing so much as coffin makers , because they never worked twice for the same customer . In old days , when the laws against usury were still in ...
... characters were in reality no good for any serious work , and , as a wag said , resembled nothing so much as coffin makers , because they never worked twice for the same customer . In old days , when the laws against usury were still in ...
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... character of his forensic and senatorial oratory ) as private secretary and domestic physician , at a salary of five hundred a year ! However , the day of reckon- ing came ; prison , the insolvent court , and all the grim concomitants ...
... character of his forensic and senatorial oratory ) as private secretary and domestic physician , at a salary of five hundred a year ! However , the day of reckon- ing came ; prison , the insolvent court , and all the grim concomitants ...
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... character of much the same kind was a Major Fitzgerald who , though of good birth and pursuing a regular profession , possessed the singularity of never allowing a King's writ to be served upon him . It was , indeed , common amongst the ...
... character of much the same kind was a Major Fitzgerald who , though of good birth and pursuing a regular profession , possessed the singularity of never allowing a King's writ to be served upon him . It was , indeed , common amongst 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...