Tilbury NogoLongmans, Green, 1900 - 352 ページ |
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agreeable amongst amusement animal appearance arrived Ascot Ashby Folville Bagshot Barabbas Barkby battledore and shuttlecock bay horse beautiful Beeswing Bloomsbury Blueskin Blunderbuss breakfast called carriage champagne charms cigar claret comfortable companion countenance course dark deer delightful dinner Doctor door Dotterell drawing-room ears écarté excitement eyes favour favourite feel fellow fence field galloping gentleman grey half hand harriers head heard heart honour horse hounds hour hunting Jack Raffleton Julius Cæsar jumped Kate Cotherstone lady legs Leicestershire London look miles mind Montague Forbes morning never night once pace Pippingdon play pony race remark ride round Sandy Saraband seemed Segundo shooting short shot smile sort sport sportsman Squire Squire's thing thought Tilbury Nogo Topthorne Lodge turn Virginia Water walk whilst whole window young
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180 ページ - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
199 ページ - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
155 ページ - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
222 ページ - A hundred voices joined the shout; With hark and whoop and wild halloo. No rest Benvoirlich's echoes knew. Far from the tumult fled the roe; Close in her covert...
300 ページ - 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!
164 ページ - Bring forth the horse !' — the horse was brought ; In truth he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs : but he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and untaught, With spur and bridle Undefiled...
338 ページ - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep : Thus runs the world away.
34 ページ - England," with something about a child and a donkey, which a second fainting fit prevented my quite catching the meaning of. Hunting was out of the question for the rest of the season ; and after a fortnight of bed at Melton I betook myself to London, where it was a good six weeks before I was sufficiently restored even to be questioned about my accident. However, it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and Segundo had the horses to ride till the end of the season, which he seems to have done...
121 ページ - Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation...
161 ページ - Oh, -woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.