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... wicket style , through which when the party had passed , they found themselves in a close copse or wood , with a covert winding path " leading inward far , " along which in a somewhat sharp descent Mr. Warden led them , saying : " There ...
... wicket style , through which when the party had passed , they found themselves in a close copse or wood , with a covert winding path " leading inward far , " along which in a somewhat sharp descent Mr. Warden led them , saying : " There ...
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... wicket - keeper , whose duty consists in standing at the opposite wicket to the bowler , and behind the batter , in order that he may stop the ball , if the batter miss it , or catch him out , if the ball have touched his bat in its ...
... wicket - keeper , whose duty consists in standing at the opposite wicket to the bowler , and behind the batter , in order that he may stop the ball , if the batter miss it , or catch him out , if the ball have touched his bat in its ...
Página 230
... wicket , calls out , ' no ball , ' and then the batter is not considered out , ' even though his ball may have been caught . " " The bowling - crease has also what is called the return- crease , after this fashion , " observed Mr ...
... wicket , calls out , ' no ball , ' and then the batter is not considered out , ' even though his ball may have been caught . " " The bowling - crease has also what is called the return- crease , after this fashion , " observed Mr ...
Página 231
... wicket and the bowling - crease , and at four feet distance from it . The batter may at any time , while the play is proceeding , be put out ( that is , have his wicket knocked down with the ball ) , if he have not one foot or his bat ...
... wicket and the bowling - crease , and at four feet distance from it . The batter may at any time , while the play is proceeding , be put out ( that is , have his wicket knocked down with the ball ) , if he have not one foot or his bat ...
Página 232
... wicket ; 11 , the long field , to cover the middle- wicket and point of the bat . " " But why are so many more of the seekers - out placed on the one side of the batter than on the other ? " enquired Mr. Singleton . " Because , " said ...
... wicket ; 11 , the long field , to cover the middle- wicket and point of the bat . " " But why are so many more of the seekers - out placed on the one side of the batter than on the other ? " enquired Mr. Singleton . " Because , " said ...
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'Many Happy Returns of the Day!' by C. and M.C. Clarke Charles Cowden Clarke,Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 92 - Round-hoof d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Página 19 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 42 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Página 18 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 43 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly...
Página 94 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 292 - Now move to war her sable Matadores, In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors. Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord ! Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
Página 293 - Thus when dispers'da routed army runs, Of Asia's troops, and Afric's sable sons, With like confusion different nations fly, Of various habit, and of various dye, The pierc'd battalions disunited fall, In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all.
Página 193 - Joying to hear the birds' sweet harmony, Which therein shrouded from the tempest dread, Seem'd in their song to scorn the cruel sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry, The builder Oak, sole king of forests all, The Aspen good for staves, the Cypress funeral...
Página 85 - What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed ! — seems native more of air Than earth ! — whose burden only lends him fire ! — Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport ! Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him now ! He takes away my breath ! — He makes me reel ! I touch not earth — I see not — hear not — All Is ecstasy of motion ! Wild.