Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 16. kötetTresham Gilbey Vinton, 1869 |
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7st 4lb 8st 7lb Admiral Rous aged agst Anthée Armançon bad third Bartholomew Butler Capt Harford Carrott Carver course Crisp Derby Essom fell filly Fitz-Gladiator Flying Dutchman Fordham four lengths Gemma di Vergy gentlemen ground half a length Handicap Steeple Chase head Heatherthorp Heslop horse hounds Hunter hunting huntsman Hurdle Race Jeffery Kate Kelpie killed King late length between third lengths between second look Lord Lord Portsmouth mare Master match miles Mizen neck never Newmarket Plate Hp Plate of 501 Pratt Prince Pytchley Quorn ride Scarrington scent season second and third Selling Race Selling Stakes six lengths sovs sport Steeple Chase Steeple Chase Plate Stoford three lengths Turf Watkins Widdington Wild Wilson Won by four Won by half Won by six Won by three Won by three-quarters Won easily Woodridge yr olds
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173. oldal - But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope,—what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love,—what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining
137. oldal - O Horace! the rustic still rests by the river, But the river flows on, and flows past him for ever! Who can sit down and say, " What I will be, I will ?" Who stand up and affirm,
137. oldal - How blest should we be, have I often conceived, Had we really achieved what we nearly achieved ! We but catch at the skirts of the thing we would be, And fall back on the lap of a false destiny.
66. oldal - Orphan hours, the year is dead, Come and sigh, come and weep ! Merry hours, smile instead, For the year is but asleep.
70. oldal - high altar of the Cathedral, and proclaimed a public and universal ' liberty, pardon, and freedom, to all sorts of inferior and even * wicked people.
228. oldal - This Clipper that stands in the stall at the top. Ere we got to the finish, I counted but few, And never a coat without dirt, but my own. To the good horse I rode all the credit is due,
228. oldal - over them—pop ! Went this Clipper that stands in the stall at the top. I'da lead of them all, when we came to the brook, A big one, a bumper, and up to your chin ! As he threw it behind him I turned for a look, There were eight of us had it, and seven got in. Then he shook his lean head,
112. oldal - Twas a caution, I vow; but to see the man ride ! O'er the rough and the smooth he went sailing along; And what Providence sent him he took in his stride, Though the ditches were deep, and the fences were strong.
3. oldal - Won by half a length ; three lengths between the second and third ; and a neck between the third and fourth. The winner,
81. oldal - During the past few years a great deal of attention has been directed to the question of