Sports and Pastimes of Merry EnglandDarton & Company, 1859 - 184 من الصفحات |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 61 - Perfume for a lady's chamber : Golden quoifs, and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears ¡ Pins, and poking-sticks of steel ; What maids lack from head to heel. Come, buy of me, come : come buy, come buy ; Buy lads, or else your lasses cry. Come, buy, &c.
الصفحة 155 - Hock-Cart crown'd. About the cart, hear, how the rout Of rural younglings raise the shout; Pressing before, some coming after, Those with a shout, and these with laughter. Some bless the cart; some kiss the sheaves; Some prank them up with oaken leaves: Some cross the fill-horse; some with great Devotion, stroke the home-borne wheat: While other rustics, less attent To prayers, than to merriment, Run after with their breeches rent.
الصفحة 30 - ... a walk of snipes ; a fall of woodcocks ; a brood of hens ; a building of rooks ; a murmuration of starlings ; an exaltation of larks ; a flight of swallows; a host of sparrows; a watch of nightingales ; and a charm of goldfinches.
الصفحة 92 - 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.
الصفحة 25 - ... accordingly they prepare for them with more solicitude, expense, and parade, than they do for war; and pursue the wild beasts with greater fury than they do the enemies of their country. By constantly following this way of life they lose much of their humanity, and become as savage nearly as the very beasts they hunt. Husbandmen, with their harmless herds and flocks, are driven from their well-cultivated fields, their meadows and their pastures, that wild beasts may range in them without interruption.
الصفحة 25 - If one of these great and merciless hunters shall pass by your habitation, bring forth hastily all the refreshment you have in your house, or that you can readily buy or borrow from your neighbours, that you may not be involved in ruin, or even accused of treason."*
الصفحة 92 - The horses, on their part, are not without emulation, they tremble and are impatient, and are continually in motion: at last the signal once given, they strike, devour the course, hurrying along with unremitting velocity. The jockeys, inspired with the thoughts of applause and the hopes of victory, clap spurs to their willing horses, brandish their whips, and cheer them with their cries.
الصفحة 44 - Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.
الصفحة 107 - It is nearly over with him; had the hounds caught view, he must have died. — He will hardly reach the cover; see how they gain upon him at every stroke! - It is an admirable race! yet the cover saves him. Now be quiet, and he cannot escape us; we have the wind of the hounds, and cannot be better placed: - how short he runs! - he is now in the very strongest part of the cover. - What a crash! every hound is in, and every hound is running for him. That was a quick turn! Again another! - he's put...
الصفحة 107 - Mischief is at his heels, and death is not far off. - Ha! they all stop at once: - all silent, and yet no earth is open. Listen! - now they are at him again! - Did you hear that hound catch him?