Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq: Or The Pursuits of an English Country GentlemanRoutledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1862 - 212 pagina's |
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Pagina 179 - Bound-hoof d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, 3 0 •' Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Pagina 179 - Look, when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace, and bone.
Pagina 28 - O'erturn the proud, teach rapine to restore: And as you ride sublimely round the world, Make every vessel stoop, make every state At...
Pagina 12 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Pagina 187 - ... whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with his might...
Pagina 23 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Pagina 115 - Paul. Oh that's a royal sport ! We yet may see the old man in a morning, Lusty as health come ruddy to 'the field, And there pursue the chase, as if he meant To o'ertake time, and bring back youth again.
Pagina 54 - He has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than narrow ; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; his neck thin; his tail thick and bushy ; if he carry it well, so much the better.
Pagina 207 - Where no lancet, nor laudanum either, availed. More care of a horse than he took could take no man, He'd more straw than would serve any lying-in woman. Still he died ! Yet just how, as nobody knows, It may truly be said, he died "under the Rose.
Pagina 158 - Thus challenged forth, see thither one by one, From every side assembling playmates run ; A thousand wily antics mark their stay, A starting crowd impatient of delay. Like the fond dove from fearful prison freed, Each seems to say, " Come, let us try our speed...