Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... lived till he was forty - eight , at which age ( in March , 1859 ) , having put a horse three times at a fence , it eventually fell and rolled over him . A favourite joke of Mytton's and other wild sparks was to take timid people out in ...
... lived till he was forty - eight , at which age ( in March , 1859 ) , having put a horse three times at a fence , it eventually fell and rolled over him . A favourite joke of Mytton's and other wild sparks was to take timid people out in ...
Էջ 11
... lived at Walham Green , when the Prince's debts were being liquidated by Parliament , sent in a claim for shoeing and doctoring horses which amounted to no less than eleven thou- sand pounds . One - third of this amount was dis- allowed ...
... lived at Walham Green , when the Prince's debts were being liquidated by Parliament , sent in a claim for shoeing and doctoring horses which amounted to no less than eleven thou- sand pounds . One - third of this amount was dis- allowed ...
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... 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 nine months of the year in ; and I don't know anywhere you could spend the other three better ...
... 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 nine months of the year in ; and I don't know anywhere you could spend the other three better ...
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... lived rich to die poor ; the miser has lived poor to die rich ; and , if the prodigal quits life in debt to others , the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself . More toleration was formerly extended to ruined spendthrifts than ...
... lived rich to die poor ; the miser has lived poor to die rich ; and , if the prodigal quits life in debt to others , the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself . More toleration was formerly extended to ruined spendthrifts than ...
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... lived in princely style , and the Duke of York , Lord Wellesley , and the greatest men of the day were frequent guests at his table . Howard went to Paris on a visit to Laffitte , the banker , supposing himself to be a very wealthy man ...
... lived in princely style , and the Duke of York , Lord Wellesley , and the greatest men of the day were frequent guests at his table . Howard went to Paris on a visit to Laffitte , the banker , supposing himself to be a very wealthy man ...
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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...