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... position . We should much like to walk one of our least enthusiastic foreign friends through the park at Fawsley , the picturesque seat of Sir Charles Knightley , whose likeness so appropriately adorns the present number of our magazine ...
... position . We should much like to walk one of our least enthusiastic foreign friends through the park at Fawsley , the picturesque seat of Sir Charles Knightley , whose likeness so appropriately adorns the present number of our magazine ...
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... position ; and even in the shades of wooded Fawsley , and the peaceful joys of a happy domestic hearth and an extended circle of friends , his attention was not to be distracted from the stirring events of the great political world ...
... position ; and even in the shades of wooded Fawsley , and the peaceful joys of a happy domestic hearth and an extended circle of friends , his attention was not to be distracted from the stirring events of the great political world ...
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... position in which Providence has placed him , and which he so nobly fills ; long may he be spared as a bright example to the country gentlemen of England - the kind master , the tender parent , the considerate landlord , the staunch ...
... position in which Providence has placed him , and which he so nobly fills ; long may he be spared as a bright example to the country gentlemen of England - the kind master , the tender parent , the considerate landlord , the staunch ...
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... position of one of the first - alas ! that we should say one of the last - of the fine old country gentlemen of England . Sir Charles Knightley was born in 1781 ; he is descended from one of the oldest and most highly connected families ...
... position of one of the first - alas ! that we should say one of the last - of the fine old country gentlemen of England . Sir Charles Knightley was born in 1781 ; he is descended from one of the oldest and most highly connected families ...
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... position he did aboard the Diamond . He was re- quested to take his kit , and leave the yacht immediately ; and told that the whole affair would be publicly laid before the members of the Yacht Club ; and he would be for ever precluded ...
... position he did aboard the Diamond . He was re- quested to take his kit , and leave the yacht immediately ; and told that the whole affair would be publicly laid before the members of the Yacht Club ; and he would be for ever precluded ...
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Sida 348 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Sida 177 - With the loud streams: and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above all power of sight — An iron knell ! with echoes from afar Faint — and still fainter...
Sida 323 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Sida 213 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Sida 193 - Won by half a length, a length and a half between the second and third, and a length between the third and fourth.
Sida 152 - ... may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may refer the case to a general meeting, if the importance or difficulty of the matter in dispute shall appear to them to require it. The witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence, and if either party...
Sida 176 - And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Sida 99 - ... latter they carried with them when they journeyed from one country to another ; and sometimes even when they went to battle, and would not part with them even to procure their own liberty when taken prisoners. These birds were considered as ensigns of nobility ; and no action could be reckoned more dishonourable to a man of rank, than to give up his hawk.
Sida 74 - Pretty Boy, and 3 to 1 against Coroner. Won by half a length, five lengths between the second and third. Mr. Sargent's bf sister to Spindle, by Orlando, 8st.
Sida 99 - English archen of his time. Speaking of the notorious manner in which their strength had declined, he says, " The French soldiers were in the habit of turning their backs to the English at long range, bidding them shoot. But, adds Hollingshed, " had the archers been what they were wont to be, these fellows would have had their breeches nailed unto their buttocks.