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... never yet won or bred a Derby or a St. Leger winner , has for all that accomplished a vast deal more for racing itself than many who in their time have had the fortune to own to doing both . For nearly the last half century we find the ...
... never yet won or bred a Derby or a St. Leger winner , has for all that accomplished a vast deal more for racing itself than many who in their time have had the fortune to own to doing both . For nearly the last half century we find the ...
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... never yet had been ; the same feature and character we thought might be preserved , although we never saw a series hitherto ( save at Astley's ) but in which the high - mettled racer not only changed his occupation in almost each change ...
... never yet had been ; the same feature and character we thought might be preserved , although we never saw a series hitherto ( save at Astley's ) but in which the high - mettled racer not only changed his occupation in almost each change ...
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... never for a moment excite . The playful , petted foal , the promis- ing colt , and the " pampered and prancing " high conditioned , well guarded first favourite , to sink down from " the hack of the road , " to " being sold for the ...
... never for a moment excite . The playful , petted foal , the promis- ing colt , and the " pampered and prancing " high conditioned , well guarded first favourite , to sink down from " the hack of the road , " to " being sold for the ...
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... never held a different opinion ; but sometimes one thinks more substantively than another : one's theme is more palpable : one's subject stands out in such bold relief , there is no passing without knocking one's head against it . The ...
... never held a different opinion ; but sometimes one thinks more substantively than another : one's theme is more palpable : one's subject stands out in such bold relief , there is no passing without knocking one's head against it . The ...
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... never rests - which has never attained - which is never perfect . Its law is progress . " You see from this , if you are disposed to be enlightened , that instead of the antediluvians having had it all their own way , we are in a pretty ...
... never rests - which has never attained - which is never perfect . Its law is progress . " You see from this , if you are disposed to be enlightened , that instead of the antediluvians having had it all their own way , we are in a pretty ...
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Página 6 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 249 - And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go. " They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the Bishop's bones ; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
Página 89 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Página 248 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn.
Página 23 - ... 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 165 - 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 247 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And...
Página 249 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before...
Página 401 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Página 168 - 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.