HuntingLongmans, Green, 1885 - 401 strán (strany) Intended as a "modern encyclopaedia, to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of hunting, can turn for information" (Preface). |
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Strana 12 - Therfore he was a prickasoure a right: Greihoundes he hadde as swift as foul of flight: Of pricking and of hunting for the hare Was all his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.
Strana 388 - The Stud, for Practical Purposes and Practical Men: Being a Guide to the Choice of a Horse for use more than for show.
Strana 389 - THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER in the Counties of Devon and Somerset. With an APPENDIX descriptive of Remarkable Runs and Incidents connected with the Chase, from the year 1780 to the year 1860.
Strana 26 - Grins fell destruction, to the monster's heart Let the dart lighten from the nervous arm. These Britain knows not ; give, ye Britons, then Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold; Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Strana 390 - Cecil. — The Stud Farm ; or, Hints on Breeding Horses for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road.
Strana 10 - ... 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.
Strana 12 - Walter, bishop of Rochester, who lived in the thirteenth century, was an excellent hunter, and so fond of the sport, that at the age of fourscore he made hunting his sole employment, to the total neglect of the duties of his...
Strana 388 - Cecil's Stable Practice; or, Hints on Training for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road...
Strana 144 - O'er his broad back bends in an ample arch; On shoulders clean, upright and firm he stands, His round cat foot, straight hams, and wide-spread thighs, And his low-dropping chest, confess his speed, His strength, his wind, or on the steepy hill, Or far-extended plain; in every part So well proportioned, that the nicer skill Of Phidias himself can't blame thy choice. Of such compose thy pack.
Strana 222 - Now for the Art of Catching Fish, that is to say, how to make a man that was none to be an Angler by a book ; he that undertakes it shall undertake a harder task than Mr. Hales, a most valiant and excellent fencer, who in a printed book, called " A Private School of Defence," undertook to teach that art or science, and was laughed at for his labor.