Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... morning at the Marlborough Street Police Office . Tyburnia had few or no dwellings on it , and Belgravia had not sprung into existence . The Five Fields where Eaton Square and its neighbourhood now stand were swampy grounds , into which ...
... morning at the Marlborough Street Police Office . Tyburnia had few or no dwellings on it , and Belgravia had not sprung into existence . The Five Fields where Eaton Square and its neighbourhood now stand were swampy grounds , into which ...
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... morning at the Marlborough Street Police Office . Tyburnia had few or no dwellings on it , and Belgravia had not sprung into existence . The Five Fields where Eaton Square and its neighbourhood now stand were swampy grounds , into which ...
... morning at the Marlborough Street Police Office . Tyburnia had few or no dwellings on it , and Belgravia had not sprung into existence . The Five Fields where Eaton Square and its neighbourhood now stand were swampy grounds , into which ...
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... morning . The names of nearly all the frequenters of the place were introduced . It was never published , but seems to have been freely circulated in manu- script , and used to be sung to the well - known air of Jenny Jones . The ...
... morning . The names of nearly all the frequenters of the place were introduced . It was never published , but seems to have been freely circulated in manu- script , and used to be sung to the well - known air of Jenny Jones . The ...
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... morning . " How do you travel ? " said the nephew . " I shall post it , ” replied the uncle . " You had better come with me , in my gig , " rejoined the nephew ; " we shall do it comfortably in ten hours . " " Hang your gig ! " said the ...
... morning . " How do you travel ? " said the nephew . " I shall post it , ” replied the uncle . " You had better come with me , in my gig , " rejoined the nephew ; " we shall do it comfortably in ten hours . " " Hang your gig ! " said the ...
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... morning they were under way . When they had got out of the park the uncle told his nephew that he had been brushing up his recollections , and he believed he could say that that was only the fifth time he ever had been in a gig in his ...
... morning they were under way . When they had got out of the park the uncle told his nephew that he had been brushing up his recollections , and he believed he could say that that was only the fifth time he ever had been in a gig in his ...
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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...