Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... head out and call for assistance . In Saint James's Street stood a row of sedan chairs , which the dowagers of Saint James's made use of to attend their whist parties , and these sometimes met with the same fate as the watchmen's boxes ...
... head out and call for assistance . In Saint James's Street stood a row of sedan chairs , which the dowagers of Saint James's made use of to attend their whist parties , and these sometimes met with the same fate as the watchmen's boxes ...
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... head out and call for assistance . In Saint James's Street stood a row of sedan chairs , which the dowagers of Saint James's made use of to attend their whist parties , and these sometimes met with the same fate as the watchmen's boxes ...
... head out and call for assistance . In Saint James's Street stood a row of sedan chairs , which the dowagers of Saint James's made use of to attend their whist parties , and these sometimes met with the same fate as the watchmen's boxes ...
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... head waiter at old Limmer's - John Collins by name - no doubt the well - known drink was called after him . A celebrated song about this character was very popular at one period . According to a tradition prevalent at Limmer's , in ...
... head waiter at old Limmer's - John Collins by name - no doubt the well - known drink was called after him . A celebrated song about this character was very popular at one period . According to a tradition prevalent at Limmer's , in ...
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... heads at the doings of wild charioteers , and many pranks were played upon timid people . A Staffordshire squire meeting his nephew one day in London , they began to compare notes , and it appeared that each was bound for Oxford the ...
... heads at the doings of wild charioteers , and many pranks were played upon timid people . A Staffordshire squire meeting his nephew one day in London , they began to compare notes , and it appeared that each was bound for Oxford the ...
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... head , he slept on the steps of a house at the corner of Hamilton Place , Piccadilly ; and when he awoke the next morning , he made the best of his way to Seven Dials , in search of an occupation . The keeper of a beershop engaged him ...
... head , he slept on the steps of a house at the corner of Hamilton Place , Piccadilly ; and when he awoke the next morning , he made the best of his way to Seven Dials , in search of an occupation . The keeper of a beershop engaged him ...
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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...