The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 7

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Baldwin & Cradock, 1834
 

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Page 17 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 240 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 45 - ... and brought into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace with and amongst all his neighbours and other good and worthy subjects of this realm...
Page 184 - Green in five minutes, or less — My neck it was saved by the speed of Black Bess. Stepping carelessly forward, I lounge on the green, Taking excellent care that by all I am seen ; Some remarks on time's flight to the squires I address, But I say not a word of the flight of Black Bess.
Page 82 - pulchrce dunes, breve caput, arduaque cervix," of the Roman bard. There was no redundancy of flesh, 'tis true ; her flanks might, to please some tastes, have been rounder, and her shoulder fuller ; but look at the nerve and sinew, palpable through the veined limbs ! She was built more for strength than beauty, and yet she was beautiful. Look at that elegant little head ; those thin tapering ears, closely placed together ; that broad snorting nostril, which seems to snuff the gale with...
Page 81 - Book of this romance, we may, perhaps, be pardoned for here expatiating a little in this place upon her birth, parentage, breeding, appearance, and attractions. And first as to her pedigree ; for in the horse, unlike the human species, nature has strongly impressed the noble or ignoble caste. He is the real aristocrat, and the pure blood that flows in the veins of the gallant steed will infallibly be transmitted, if his mate be suitable, throughout all his line. Bess was no cocktail. She was thoroughbred...
Page 285 - The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs.
Page 184 - As the crow wings his flight we selected our road. We arrived at Hough Green in five minutes or less, My neck it was saved by the speed of Black Bess. Stepping carelessly forward I lounge on the green, Taking excellent care that by all I am seen; Some remarks on time's flight to the squires I address; But I say not a word of the flight of Black Bess.
Page 44 - ... and to bring him into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace, with and amongst all his neighbours, and other good and worthy subjects of this...
Page 45 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, in the county aforesaid, falsely, wickedly, and maliciously did compose and publish, and cause and procure to be published...

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