The Life of a SportsmanG. Routledge and Sons, 1874 - 402 pages |
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Page 346 - Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, }Never to hope again.
Page 354 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Page 377 - He has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than narrow ; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; his neck thin; his tail thick and bushy ; if he carry it well, so much the better.
Page 380 - Never put an old dog to an old bitch. Be careful that they be healthy which you breed from, or you are not likely to have a healthy offspring. Should a favourite dog skirt a little, put him to a thorough line-hunting bitch, and such a cross may succeed.
Page 102 - The very furniture of his rooms describe the characters of the persons to whom they belong ; a lesson that might be of use to comic authors. It was reserved to Hogarth to write a scene of furniture. The rake's levee-room, the nobleman's dining-room, the apartments of the husband and wife in Marriage Alamode, the alderman's parlour, the poet's bedchamber, and many others, are the history of the manners of the age.
Page 346 - ... of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 275 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 174 - Slack by the throat, and held him up against the rails, and grain'd him so much as to make him extremely black ; this continued for half a minute, before Slack could break Pettit's hold : after which for near ten minutes Pettit kept fighting and driving hard at Slack, when at length Slack clos'd with his antagonist, and gave him a very...
Page 376 - ... propensities as well as faults. A celebrated writer (and better authority no man need require) has said : " In modern times the system of hunting is much improved, and so much more attention is paid to the condition of hounds and their style of work that in this enlightened age the master of hounds thinks it a reflection on his judgment if one hound in his pack is detected in a fault.
Page 344 - Go on, brave youths ! till in some future age Whips shall become the senatorial badge ; Till England see her jockey senators Meet all at Westminster in boots and spurs? See the whole house, with mutual frenzy mad ; Her patriots all in leathern breeches clad, Of bets, not taxes, learnedly debate, And guide with equal reins a steed and state.