Anecdotes of Archery: From Earliest Ages to the Year 1791Hargrove's library, 1845 - 316 pages |
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Anecdotes of Archery: From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1791 (1845) Ely Hargrove No preview available - 2009 |
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admission allowed to shoot alteration annual meeting annual prize annual subscription appointed Archery Society ballot black balls bow meeting button butts called candidate Captain and Lieutenant Captain of Numbers Captain-General circle club commence Committee costume count Dalry Darlington dinner distance Earl elected field-day fixed forfeit gentlemen George Glasgow gorget greatest number green ground guineas held honorary members Isaac Fisher Joseph Coates July Kilbirnie Kilwinning king Lord mark Melsonby members present nock notice number of hits number of members NUMBER OF MEMBERS.-The o'clock Office-bearers Old Sarum paid papingo person President proposed and seconded Richmond Robert Hall Robert Robinson Robin Hood Royal Company Rules and Regulations score Scorton Scotland season Secretary shaft shillings shillings and sixpence shooter shot silver arrow silver medal Society of Archers string subscribers thereof Thirsk Thomas Toxophilites Treasurer uniform unless Vale of Mowbray VIII vote yards
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Page 80 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,' Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er ; The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 23 - His fellow's winded horn not one of them but knew, When setting to their lips their little bugles shrill, The warbling echoes waked from every dale and hill: Their baldrics set with studs, athwart their shoulders cast, To which under their arms their sheafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee, not counted then a man : All made of Spanish yew, their bows were wondrous strong ; They not an arrow drew but was a cloth-yard long. Of archery...
Page 10 - I know not the day of my death : now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 23 - An hundred valiant men had this brave Robin Hood, Still ready at his call, that bowmen were right good ; All clad in Lincoln green, with caps of red and blue...
Page 11 - THEN fierce the hero o'er the threshold strode ; Stript of his rags, he blaz'd out like a god. Full in their face the lifted bow he bore, And quiver'd deaths, a formidable store ; Before his feet the rattling shower he threw, And thus, terrific, to the suitor-crew : One venturous game this hand has won to-day, Another, princes ! yet remains to play ; Another mark our arrow must attain. Phoebus, assist ! nor be the labour vain.
Page 11 - Swift as the word the parting arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings: Wretch that he was, of unprophetic soul! High in his hands he rear'd the golden bowl...
Page 173 - Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c?
Page 53 - I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength: as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall never Shoot well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly Art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in Physic.
Page 20 - King William II., surnamed Rufus, on the breast; of which stroke he instantly died, on the 2nd of August, 1100. " King William II., surnamed Rufus, being slain, as before related, was laid in a cart belonging to one Purkess, and drawn from hence to Winchester, and buried in the cathedral church of that city.
Page 24 - ... moods he contented himself with enticing them in the guise of a butcher or a potter, with the hope of a good bargain, into the green wood, where he first made merry and then fleeced them, making them dance to such music as his forest afforded, or join with Friar Tuck in hypocritical thanksgiving for the justice and mercy they had experienced. Robin's...