The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts, Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Volumen 2William H. Colyer, 1844 |
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... hare , or the horses . " There is a little rivalship in riding , or in the behaviour of the horses , but this has so little to do with the personal merit of the sportsman , that it never produces a want of good fellow- ship in the ...
... hare , or the horses . " There is a little rivalship in riding , or in the behaviour of the horses , but this has so little to do with the personal merit of the sportsman , that it never produces a want of good fellow- ship in the ...
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... hare having been terribly frightened without being killed , or of a bird having been left in a thicket with a shot in its body , or a fracture in the wing . But , before you go up stairs , give your servant orders to be early at market ...
... hare having been terribly frightened without being killed , or of a bird having been left in a thicket with a shot in its body , or a fracture in the wing . But , before you go up stairs , give your servant orders to be early at market ...
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... hare hounds at the age of nine or ten . I have , many a day , left the rooks to dig up the wheat , beans , and peas , while I followed the hounds ; and have returned home at dark night , with my legs full of thorns , and my belly empty ...
... hare hounds at the age of nine or ten . I have , many a day , left the rooks to dig up the wheat , beans , and peas , while I followed the hounds ; and have returned home at dark night , with my legs full of thorns , and my belly empty ...
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... hare hunting , and coursing the hare , * They had not began to practice Governor Lovelace's plundering maxim , when out here in 1668 .. " The best method , " said he , " to keep a people in order , was to lay such taxes upon them , as ...
... hare hunting , and coursing the hare , * They had not began to practice Governor Lovelace's plundering maxim , when out here in 1668 .. " The best method , " said he , " to keep a people in order , was to lay such taxes upon them , as ...
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... hare is in the mead , and the rooks are on the wing ; In the eye of every blossom the night hath left a tear , The moon begins to pale , and the stars disappear . The hunters are meeting , With horse and with hound , And blithe hearts ...
... hare is in the mead , and the rooks are on the wing ; In the eye of every blossom the night hath left a tear , The moon begins to pale , and the stars disappear . The hunters are meeting , With horse and with hound , And blithe hearts ...
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Página 284 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 254 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 116 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 99 - And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Página 78 - An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Página 105 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 115 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Página 9 - Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine!
Página 319 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 318 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.