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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... broken up some years ago , there still may be seen in Little Weldon ' mounds and foundations of an extensive building surrounded by a quadrangular moat to which the peasants give the name 6 6 of ' The Castle ' or ' The Hall INTRODUCTION 13.
... broken up some years ago , there still may be seen in Little Weldon ' mounds and foundations of an extensive building surrounded by a quadrangular moat to which the peasants give the name 6 6 of ' The Castle ' or ' The Hall INTRODUCTION 13.
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... seen , tells Miss Martha Blunt how he meets the Prince of Wales , with all the maids of honour on horseback coming back tired and hot from hunting . These ladies can hardly have done themselves justice on the hired hacks provided for ...
... seen , tells Miss Martha Blunt how he meets the Prince of Wales , with all the maids of honour on horseback coming back tired and hot from hunting . These ladies can hardly have done themselves justice on the hired hacks provided for ...
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... seen the deer taken near Leatherhead ; years had created a confusion in her mind between the gay dress of the huntsman and servants and the simple insignia of the king . ' His Majesty wore a scarlet coat and jockey cap , with gold all ...
... seen the deer taken near Leatherhead ; years had created a confusion in her mind between the gay dress of the huntsman and servants and the simple insignia of the king . ' His Majesty wore a scarlet coat and jockey cap , with gold all ...
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... seen for years . At the tue of Don Miguel's visit , however , he had become h too heavy to think of hunting ; indeed , owing to his rat weight and swelled legs , he had not hunted for a long me : so the order can only have been given ...
... seen for years . At the tue of Don Miguel's visit , however , he had become h too heavy to think of hunting ; indeed , owing to his rat weight and swelled legs , he had not hunted for a long me : so the order can only have been given ...
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... seen for years . At the time of Dom Miguel's visit , however , he had become much too heavy to think of hunting ; indeed , owing to his great weight and swelled legs , he had not hunted for a long time ; so the order can only have been ...
... seen for years . At the time of Dom Miguel's visit , however , he had become much too heavy to think of hunting ; indeed , owing to his great weight and swelled legs , he had not hunted for a long time ; so the order can only have been ...
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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.