Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... died a boy of eighty - two- Poor Q of Piccadilly . As a matter of fact , the amorous old Duke lived four years more , dying in 1810 , aged eighty - six . He used to say , " London is , in my opinion , the best place in the world to pass ...
... died a boy of eighty - two- Poor Q of Piccadilly . As a matter of fact , the amorous old Duke lived four years more , dying in 1810 , aged eighty - six . He used to say , " London is , in my opinion , the best place in the world to pass ...
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... died the year before of yellow fever , and therefore hoped she would not expect his return . About a hundred years ago Dublin was the scene of much wild life . Old and young , rich and poor , seemed to live but to one end - to make the ...
... died the year before of yellow fever , and therefore hoped she would not expect his return . About a hundred years ago Dublin was the scene of much wild life . Old and young , rich and poor , seemed to live but to one end - to make the ...
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... died in 1831 , even when near eighty - five years old a typical sportsman of the real old school , who scorned to go out shooting with a double - barrelled gun , and held battues in utter abhorrence . He hated new - fangled innovations ...
... died in 1831 , even when near eighty - five years old a typical sportsman of the real old school , who scorned to go out shooting with a double - barrelled gun , and held battues in utter abhorrence . He hated new - fangled innovations ...
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... died there in 1804 , at the age of seventy- seven . This individual was born in Cheshire , of humble parents , and came up to London , where he eventually amassed a fortune in business , after which he settled down to a sedentary and ...
... died there in 1804 , at the age of seventy- seven . This individual was born in Cheshire , of humble parents , and came up to London , where he eventually amassed a fortune in business , after which he settled down to a sedentary and ...
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... died . Before his death he declared that he had no intention of destroying himself , and the unfortu- nate affair had been but a joke to frighten his landlady . Another unsuccessful gamester was more lucky . This was a certain captain ...
... died . Before his death he declared that he had no intention of destroying himself , and the unfortu- nate affair had been but a joke to frighten his landlady . Another unsuccessful gamester was more lucky . This was a certain captain ...
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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...