Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Том 233

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F. Jefferies, 1872

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Страница 534 - When a race is to be run by this sort of horses and perhaps by others, which also in their kind are strong and fleet, a shout is immediately raised, and the common horses are ordered to withdraw out of the way.
Страница 450 - The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.
Страница 250 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Страница 521 - Next for the glory of the place, Here has been rode many a race. King Charles the Second I saw here; But I've forgotten in what year. The Duke of Monmouth here also Made his horse to sweat and blow,
Страница 373 - ... to evade or refuse a degradation from his place. An Executive for life has not this motive for forgetting his fidelity, and will therefore be a safer depository of power.
Страница 428 - Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of all the country round them : but their cities he never could have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them ; but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with tempests and thunder-bolts shot from their walls.
Страница 90 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then, heigh, ho*! the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp, As friend remembered not.
Страница 559 - Court if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be passed, says nothing.
Страница 521 - Thy brute beasts' worth by their dams' qualities ? Say'st thou, this colt shall prove a swift-pac'd steed, Only because a Jennet did him breed ? Or say'st thou, this same horse shall...
Страница 579 - Remember, then, that it is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

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