The New sporting magazine, Volumen111846 |
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... matching them together in mortal combat was looked upon as a very manly pastime . Of this taste the practice of prize - fighting was at once the most barbarous and most indecent descendant . Years ago I felt it my duty to call pub- lic ...
... matching them together in mortal combat was looked upon as a very manly pastime . Of this taste the practice of prize - fighting was at once the most barbarous and most indecent descendant . Years ago I felt it my duty to call pub- lic ...
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... match in a gale of wind from Westminster to Putney , with less than the substance of a pill - box between him and eternity , than a smooth proper prig , with his hair always combed down on his forehead , hands always clean , and without ...
... match in a gale of wind from Westminster to Putney , with less than the substance of a pill - box between him and eternity , than a smooth proper prig , with his hair always combed down on his forehead , hands always clean , and without ...
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... match had been made between Dr. Bedale and a person of the name of Vipond , both Manchester men , to swim from Liverpool to Runcorn , a distance of twenty miles , in one tide . This was won by the Doctor , who accomplished his task in ...
... match had been made between Dr. Bedale and a person of the name of Vipond , both Manchester men , to swim from Liverpool to Runcorn , a distance of twenty miles , in one tide . This was won by the Doctor , who accomplished his task in ...
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... match with Inheritress , taking a stone for two years , owed no small thanks to the multum in parvo , Mr. Flatman , for winning it . He is a " lazy , cold - tempered slug , and requires a deal of forcing and riding at most times ; " in ...
... match with Inheritress , taking a stone for two years , owed no small thanks to the multum in parvo , Mr. Flatman , for winning it . He is a " lazy , cold - tempered slug , and requires a deal of forcing and riding at most times ; " in ...
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... matches are attended by as strong a corps of reporters as the crack debates in parliament ; and they are worthy of it . The R.T.Y.C. give the greatest amount of prizes to be sailed for , both in number and value , of any club in the ...
... matches are attended by as strong a corps of reporters as the crack debates in parliament ; and they are worthy of it . The R.T.Y.C. give the greatest amount of prizes to be sailed for , both in number and value , of any club in the ...
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Página 392 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Página 238 - Another came running presently, And he was pale as pale could be ! " Fly, my Lord Bishop, fly !" quoth he, " Ten thousand rats are coming this way : The Lord forgive you for yesterday !" " I'll go to my tower on the Rhine," replied he ; " 'Tis the safest place in Germany ; The walls are high, and the shores are steep, And the stream is strong and the water deep.
Página 151 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Página 13 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 2 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 13 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 151 - In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand...
Página 103 - For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away. How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start ? How many long days and long...
Página 153 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Página 100 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.