The Queen's Hounds and Stag-hunting Recollections: With an Introduction on the Hereditary Mastership, by Edward Burrows, Comp. from the Brocas Papers in His Possession |
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... appears to have stood without question for a long period , and whence it emerged to find , unfortunately , place in the inscription , inserted only in the eighteenth century , above the ancient and elaborate tomb of this early Master of ...
... appears to have stood without question for a long period , and whence it emerged to find , unfortunately , place in the inscription , inserted only in the eighteenth century , above the ancient and elaborate tomb of this early Master of ...
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... appears to have been kept at its full war complement for about twenty years , until the power of France , after the battle of Poitiers , seemed finally broken . Thus in 1357 the King commissions Sir John de Brocas , Edmund Rose , and ...
... appears to have been kept at its full war complement for about twenty years , until the power of France , after the battle of Poitiers , seemed finally broken . Thus in 1357 the King commissions Sir John de Brocas , Edmund Rose , and ...
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... appears that he was first armed as esquire on the shore of La Hogue on the day when the Black Prince was knighted , and that he had fought in France , in Scotland , in Gascony , in Brittany , and in Spain , in the presence of kings ...
... appears that he was first armed as esquire on the shore of La Hogue on the day when the Black Prince was knighted , and that he had fought in France , in Scotland , in Gascony , in Brittany , and in Spain , in the presence of kings ...
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... appears to have stood high . In the court of Venus as well as in that of Mars did the Black Prince befriend him . It has been generally received on the authority of the Metrical Chronicle of Harding that the Prince began his suit not ...
... appears to have stood high . In the court of Venus as well as in that of Mars did the Black Prince befriend him . It has been generally received on the authority of the Metrical Chronicle of Harding that the Prince began his suit not ...
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... appears from contemporary authority that Beaurepaire , their ancient seat , was one of the last houses in Hampshire to hold out for Charles's hopeless cause . Surprised and surrounded at length by a Roundhead force from Abingdon , the ...
... appears from contemporary authority that Beaurepaire , their ancient seat , was one of the last houses in Hampshire to hold out for Charles's hopeless cause . Surprised and surrounded at length by a Roundhead force from Abingdon , the ...
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Page 56 - Kates, and Jennies, All the names that banish care ; Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show the spirit of an heir. "All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly : There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly.
Page 46 - He was not only sightless — he became utterly deaf. All light, all reason, all sound of human voices, all the pleasures of this world of God, were taken from him. Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which, the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room, and found him singing a hymn, and accompanying himself at the harpsichord. When he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding...
Page 206 - Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute, this is the last 'Labour, that thou and I shall waste ; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute, be still, for I have done.
Page 149 - Shattering down the snow-flakes Off the curdled sky. Hark! The brave North-easter! Breast-high lies the scent, On by holt and headland, Over heath and bent. Chime, ye dappled darlings, Through the sleet and snow. Who can over-ride you? Let the horses go ! Chime, ye dappled darlings, Down the roaring blast You shall see a fox die Ere an hour be past. Go ! and rest to-morrow, Hunting in your dreams, While our skates are ringing O'er the frozen streams. Let the luscious South-wind Breathe in lovers'...
Page 29 - tis a most pretty show ! Through Cheapside and Fenchurch Street, and so to Aldgate pump, Each man 's with 's spurs in 's horse's sides, and his back-sword cross his rump. My lord he takes a staff in hand to beat the bushes o'er ; I must confess it was a work he ne'er had done before. A creature bounceth from a bush, which made them all to laugh ; My lord he cried, A hare ! a hare ! but it proved an Essex calf.
Page 88 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 31 - Far-gleaming, dart the same united blaze ; Reviewing generals his merit own ; How regular ! how just ! and all his cares Are well repaid, if mighty George approve — So model thou thy pack, if honour touch Thy generous soul, and the world's just applause.
Page 150 - By cunning breeding and choosing, through long centuries, man has combined both, and has created the fox-hound, lion and fawn in one ; just as he might create noble human beings, did he take half as much trouble about politics (in the true old sense of the word) as he does about fowls. Look at that old hound, who stands doubtful, looking up at his master for advice. Look at the severity, delicacy, lightness of every curve. His head is finer than a deer's ; his...
Page 119 - In thee alone, fair land of liberty ! Is bred the perfect hound, in scent and speed As yet unrivall'd, while in other climes Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race.
Page 28 - I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.