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25 sovs 50 sovs agst Bay Middleton beat Lord Bibury Blacklock Captain Champagne Stakes cheeta Colonel colt covert Cup Stakes deciding course distance Ditto dogs Doncaster Douglas's Duke of Rutland's fence field fillies Fly beat fox-hunting geldings allowed Gentlemen gorse Graham's ground half-breds Handicap Harkaway heat Heaton Park Hornsea hounds Hunt huntsman kennel Lady Langar Leger Leger Stakes Leicestershire Liverpool Lord Eglinton's Lord Exeter's Lord George Bentinck's Lord Suffield's Lord Yarborough's mare Match Meeting miles never Newmarket October Osbaldeston's owner pack Park PLATE of 50 Priam Puppy Queen Queen's Plate race ran a bye rider riding scent season second horse SERIES.-No shew six and aged Smith's sport Sportsman Spring Stakes of 25 subs Sweepstakes three-year-olds Thursday two-year-olds Vale of Belvoir Velocipede winner won the Cup Wood XVIII.-SECOND
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Page 296 - Into the wasteful deep. The monstrous sight Struck them with horror backward, but far worse Urged them behind. Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven : eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
Page 189 - Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Page 189 - St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer...
Page 80 - In the course of his researches, he was induced to ascend a small and narrow path, leading to the top of a high precipice. Dangerous as it was at first, the road became doubly so as he advanced. It was not much more than two feet broad, so rugged and difficult, and, at the same time, so terrible, that it would have been impracticable to any but the light step and steady brain of a Highlander. The precipice on the right, rose like a wall, and on the left, sunk to a depth which it was giddy to look...
Page 232 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 80 - I never could approve of Duncan's conduct towards the deer in a moral point of view (although, as the man in the play said, he was my friend), but the temptation of a hart of grease, offering, as it were, his throat to the knife, would have subdued the virtue of almost any deer-stalker.
Page 58 - At a Meeting of the Jockey Club, held on Thursday in the Second October Meeting, 1838, which was very numerously attended, it was unanimously resolved:— That it is the opinion of this Club that it is necessary to declare their extreme disapprobation of horses being started for races without the intention, on the part of their owners, of trying to win them.
Page 80 - To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Page 92 - Stakes of 25 sov. each subscription, with a bonus by an independent subscription of 10 sov. each; non-subscribers to the bonus cannot be members of the sweepstakes, but a subscriber to one bonus is entitled to name one horse to the sweepstakes, not his own property, or any number of horses bona fide his own property, for three yrs old colts to carry 8st 71b, and fillies,.
Page 80 - Seeing the animal proceed so gently, he totally forgot not only the dangers of his position, but the implicit compact which certainly might have been inferred from the circumstances of the situation. With one hand Duncan seized the deer's horn, whilst with the other he drew his dirk. But in the same instant the buck bounded over the precipice, carrying the Highlander along with him. They went thus down upwards of a hundred feet, and were found the next morning on the spot where they fell. Fortune,...