Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... hackney coaches , with a pair of horses that never exceeded five miles an hour . There were no omnibuses or hansom cabs , the first of the former having been introduced in 1828 by Shillibeer . One hundred years ago B I UNIV. OF ...
... hackney coaches , with a pair of horses that never exceeded five miles an hour . There were no omnibuses or hansom cabs , the first of the former having been introduced in 1828 by Shillibeer . One hundred years ago B I UNIV. OF ...
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... 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 following stanzas are all that have survived : My name is John Collins , head - waiter at ...
... 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 following stanzas are all that have survived : My name is John Collins , head - waiter at ...
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... never so happy as when engaging butchers and draymen in fistic encounters . Lord Methuen was a man of prodigious physique , and in his day was reputed to have raised a fifteen - stone man from a table with one hand . Billy Duff , on the ...
... never so happy as when engaging butchers and draymen in fistic encounters . Lord Methuen was a man of prodigious physique , and in his day was reputed to have raised a fifteen - stone man from a table with one hand . Billy Duff , on the ...
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... never before been in one at all . " It is needless to add that the old gentleman began to claw ( as it was called on the road ) , and was out of the gig in the twinkling of his eye . A volume might be filled up with the escapades of ...
... never before been in one at all . " It is needless to add that the old gentleman began to claw ( as it was called on the road ) , and was out of the gig in the twinkling of his eye . A volume might be filled up with the escapades of ...
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... never wear the infernal things again . " The dandies and bucks were , of course , great admirers of the fair sex , a large number of whom , it would appear , did not resent their attentions . It is all very well to speak of Platonic ...
... never wear the infernal things again . " The dandies and bucks were , of course , great admirers of the fair sex , a large number of whom , it would appear , did not resent their attentions . It is all very well to speak of Platonic ...
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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...