The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 9John William Carleton 1843 |
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agst ALL-AGED ALL-AGED STAKES animal Bake's beat beautiful Bee's-wing Bennett's Birdlime bitch Blackdrop Borron's Bowles's British Yeoman Brown's Burroughes's CHESTER CUP Cotherstone course deer DERBY Dickson's Dobede's dogs Etwall's Ewing's eyes filly Follonica gentleman Graham's bk Grosseto Hardman's head honour Hornby's horses Houghton's hounds hour hunting huntsman keeper kennel Kershaw's Lady Languish colt late LEGER STAKES lodging-room looked Lord Douglas's Lord Eglinton's Lord Winterton Lucetta colt Maremme MEETING Miller's only Daughter morning Moss Rose Murat never Newcourt Newmarket old poacher old Soaker pack Parkinson's Pollok's Priam Prince Prince Albert PUPPY STAKES Queen race ran a bye ratcatcher replied returned Ridgway's Rocket Saladin season Sewell's Sir W. A. Maxwell's Slater's sovs sport sportsman Thompson's Trapball uncarted W. A. Maxwell's bd wild Winesour winner won the Cup won the Stakes young
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Page 89 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track: Twas Autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that...
Page 26 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.
Page 27 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself, says Cowley ; ~ it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him.
Page 96 - Scrubb'd till it shone, the day to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn, By old blue-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's head frown'd on high, Crested with bays and rosemary. Well can the green-garb'd ranger tell How, when, and where, the monster fell ; What dogs before his death he tore, And all the baiting of the boar.
Page 98 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Page 97 - Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive toil'd the bloodhounds stanch ; Nor nearer might the dogs attain, Nor farther might the quarry strain.
Page 84 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 100 - First let the kennel be the huntsman's care, Upon some little eminence erect, And fronting to the ruddy dawn ; its courts On either hand wide opening to receive The Sun's all-cheering beams, when mild he shines, And gilds the mountain tops.
Page 89 - ... class, employed upon the same authors, and enjoined the same tasks ! Whatever their natural genius may be, they are all to be made poets, historians, and orators alike. They are all obliged to have the same capacity, to bring in the same tale of verse, and to furnish out the same portion of prose. Every boy is bound to have as good a memory as the captain of the form.
Page 96 - The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dewdrops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...