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Página 77
... legs , and at the top of his lungs ; " tell me , did you ever take the benefit of the Act ? " " I did , your honour , " replied the interrogatee ; " but the divil a much benefit was in it . " The respondent was an Irishman , as the ...
... legs , and at the top of his lungs ; " tell me , did you ever take the benefit of the Act ? " " I did , your honour , " replied the interrogatee ; " but the divil a much benefit was in it . " The respondent was an Irishman , as the ...
Página 95
... legs , to say nought of the farmers ' sprouting crops- all bids us beware , all warns us that the " ides of March " are past , and that our favourite sport must soon - for a while at least - be set aside . " Workmen ' may now , in the ...
... legs , to say nought of the farmers ' sprouting crops- all bids us beware , all warns us that the " ides of March " are past , and that our favourite sport must soon - for a while at least - be set aside . " Workmen ' may now , in the ...
Página 102
... legs but his own , he wisely dispensed both with boots and " buck- skins , ' save those well - fitting ones made by the same schneider em- ployed by Adam before the primal fall . Thus accoutred , and with - not a shilelah - but a heavy ...
... legs but his own , he wisely dispensed both with boots and " buck- skins , ' save those well - fitting ones made by the same schneider em- ployed by Adam before the primal fall . Thus accoutred , and with - not a shilelah - but a heavy ...
Página 107
... legs , shoes , and scent ; and few men recollect a better season with the Pytchley hounds than the present . It has been the fashion , and with some show of justice , to speak of Charles Payne as a huntsman too fond of a halloo , and ...
... legs , shoes , and scent ; and few men recollect a better season with the Pytchley hounds than the present . It has been the fashion , and with some show of justice , to speak of Charles Payne as a huntsman too fond of a halloo , and ...
Página 113
... legs ; and when I give you the word , I'll make the pace for you . " come away . " Off ! " and away we went . The first quarter of a mile showed the pace did not suit two of the young lot ; the half - mile told out the two others ; and ...
... legs ; and when I give you the word , I'll make the pace for you . " come away . " Off ! " and away we went . The first quarter of a mile showed the pace did not suit two of the young lot ; the half - mile told out the two others ; and ...
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Página 167 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 264 - that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century.
Página 268 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Página 76 - Heaven derive their light. These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Página 179 - Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Página 14 - Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon, and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain!
Página 157 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Página 94 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 183 - How melts my beating heart ! as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below ! The Chase.
Página 76 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be! And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow: Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee; Hot Shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt — as now.