Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... Regent Street , the construction of which was author- ised by an Act of Parliament in 1813 , was considered a great novelty as a public thoroughfare . Nash , the architect , had a style of his own which 2 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... Regent Street , the construction of which was author- ised by an Act of Parliament in 1813 , was considered a great novelty as a public thoroughfare . Nash , the architect , had a style of his own which 2 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
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... Regent Street , the construction of which was author- ised by an Act of Parliament in 1813 , was considered a great novelty as a public thoroughfare . Nash , the architect , had a style of his own which 2 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... Regent Street , the construction of which was author- ised by an Act of Parliament in 1813 , was considered a great novelty as a public thoroughfare . Nash , the architect , had a style of his own which 2 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
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... considered neutral territory , there was continual shooting there during the season , and at times a good many pheasants which had strayed from the preserves of Wimbledon Park were secured by City sportsmen . Whilst the neighbourhood of ...
... considered neutral territory , there was continual shooting there during the season , and at times a good many pheasants which had strayed from the preserves of Wimbledon Park were secured by City sportsmen . Whilst the neighbourhood of ...
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... considered highly dangerous by many sportsmen . In 1818 , on the occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great sporting authority wrote : " Gentlemen cannot be too ...
... considered highly dangerous by many sportsmen . In 1818 , on the occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great sporting authority wrote : " Gentlemen cannot be too ...
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... considered the green plush jacket as the most honourable one he could wear . Notwithstanding the old man had become lame , blind , and deaf , he kept a good dog , and still contrived now and then to waylay a partridge . His next - door ...
... considered the green plush jacket as the most honourable one he could wear . Notwithstanding the old man had become lame , blind , and deaf , he kept a good dog , and still contrived now and then to waylay a partridge . His next - door ...
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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...