Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, Volumen 7

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Rogerson & Tuxford, 1796
 

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Página 177 - They proved to be a she bear, and her two cubs ; but the cubs were nearly as large as the dam. They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the sea-horse, that remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously.
Página 153 - How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day : But to live with her all a man's life, For ever and for aye; Till she grow as grey as a cat, — Good faith, Mr. Parson, I thank you for that.
Página 172 - If they were at a fault, and an old hound of reputation opened but once, he was immediately followed by the whole cry ; while a raw dog, or one who was a noted liar, might have yelped his heart out, without being taken notice of.
Página 142 - Hill to Southwood, from thence to South Stoke to the wall of Arundel River, where the glorious 23 hounds put an end to the campaign, and killed an old bitch fox, ten minutes before six.
Página 153 - Like a Tory in a Bog, Or an Ape with a Clog: Such is the man, who when he might go free, Does his liberty loose, For a Matrimony noose, And sells himself into captivity.
Página 95 - Fortune's wheel ! Without one thought of the relentless foe, Who fiend-like, haunted him so long ago, Just in his former trim he now appears, The waistcoat and the night-cap...
Página 237 - The knight, after having served a kind of apprenticeship during seven or eight years as a squire, bound himself by a solemn oath to be loyal to his King, to protect the virtuous part of the fair sex, and to rescue widows and orphans from oppression, at the hazard of his life. The tilts and tournaments (which were...
Página 79 - ... is fure to find them early in the morning, dabbling at the edges of the pool, and amongft the long grafs, and then he may get very near to them : it is ufual alfo to find them in thofe places at noon.
Página 177 - While the Carcase frigate, which went out some years ago to make discoveries towards the North Pole, was locked in the ice, early one morning the man at the mast-head gave notice that three bears were making their way very fast over the frozen ocean, and were directing their course towards the ship. They had, no doubt, been invited by the scent of some blubber of a...
Página 267 - Which nothing but monkeys can dwell on ; Her heart's like a lemon— so nice She carves for each lover a slice ; In truth she's to me, Like the wind, like the sea, Whose raging will hearken to no man ; Like a mill, like a pill, Like a flail, like a whale, Like an ass, like a glass Whose image is constant to no man ; Like a shower, like a flower, Like a fly, like a pie, Like a pea, like a flea, Like a thief, like — in brief, She's like nothing on earth — but a woman ! Unknown CXXXVL THE TOWN AND...

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