The art of skating, by Cyclos |
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... Captain Clias's Gymnas- tics . " These are good enough as far as they go , but not sufficiently complete to supersede the want of a more comprehensive work . The same may be said of Captain Jones ' Treatise , published in the last ...
... Captain Clias's Gymnas- tics . " These are good enough as far as they go , but not sufficiently complete to supersede the want of a more comprehensive work . The same may be said of Captain Jones ' Treatise , published in the last ...
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... the ancle , so much the bet- ter . Captain Jones thinks that a very firm fasten- ing leaves the skate " no proper play , " and consid- ers that a fault ; but I do not know what he seeks play in the skate for . I think the 34 THE SKATE .
... the ancle , so much the bet- ter . Captain Jones thinks that a very firm fasten- ing leaves the skate " no proper play , " and consid- ers that a fault ; but I do not know what he seeks play in the skate for . I think the 34 THE SKATE .
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... Captain Jones ' figures , and though only a modification of the last mentioned , is in every way superior to it . The feet are in the same position , but you rest most on the one in front ; instead of going on either edge of the iron ...
... Captain Jones ' figures , and though only a modification of the last mentioned , is in every way superior to it . The feet are in the same position , but you rest most on the one in front ; instead of going on either edge of the iron ...
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... Captain Jones . It is to combine the inside circle and the outside , by executing , in the position of the spread eagle , a curve on each edge alternately , which must be extremely difficult . CHAPTER V. FIGURE SKATING . Inside Edge ...
... Captain Jones . It is to combine the inside circle and the outside , by executing , in the position of the spread eagle , a curve on each edge alternately , which must be extremely difficult . CHAPTER V. FIGURE SKATING . Inside Edge ...
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... Captain Jones ' plan of teaching is rather dif ferent from what I have described , and I shall therefore extract it for the reader's consideration . He says : " To preserve the balance on the outside edge , " is so difficult to be ...
... Captain Jones ' plan of teaching is rather dif ferent from what I have described , and I shall therefore extract it for the reader's consideration . He says : " To preserve the balance on the outside edge , " is so difficult to be ...
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الصفحة 80 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
الصفحة 79 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
الصفحة 9 - To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek— There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
الصفحة 11 - ST. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...
الصفحة 5 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
الصفحة 10 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
الصفحة 80 - Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away. Not seldom from the uproar I retired Into a silent bay, or sportively Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng, To cut across the reflex of a star; Image, that, flying still before me, gleamed Upon the glassy plain...
الصفحة 80 - ... so through the darkness and the cold we flew, and not a voice was idle: with the din smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; the leafless trees and every icy crag tinkled like iron ; while the distant hills into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west the orange sky of evening died away...
الصفحة 79 - mid the calm of summer nights, When, by the margin of the trembling lake, Beneath the gloomy hills, homeward I went In solitude, such intercourse was mine : Mine was it in the fields both day and night, And by the waters, all the summer long ; And in the frosty season, when the sun Was set, and, visible for many a mile, The cottage windows through the twilight blazed, I heeded not the summons : happy time It was indeed for all of us ; for me It was a time of rapture...
الصفحة 16 - When the great fen, or moor, which watereth the walls of the city on the north side, is frozen, many young men play upon the ice; some, striding as wide as they may, do slide swiftly...