Covert-side Sketches: Or, Thoughts on Hunting Suggested by Many Days in Many Countries with Fox, Deer, and Hare

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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879 - 346 sider
 

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Side 31 - 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.
Side 77 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Side 182 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; And foresters have busy been • To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay
Side 311 - Nor wanting is the brown October, drawn, Mature and perfect, from his dark retreat Of thirty years...
Side 10 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
Side 268 - tis a most pretty shew : Through Cheapside and Fenchurch-street, and so to Aldgate pump, Each man with 's spurs in 's horses sides, and his back-sword cross his rump. My lord he takes a staff in hand to beat the bushes o'er ; I must confess it was a work he ne'er had done before. A creature bounceth from a bush, which made them all to laugh ; My lord, he cried, a hare a hare, but it prov'd an Essex calf.
Side 66 - We now shall see if they will hunt, as well as run ; for there is but little scent, and the impending cloud still makes that little less. How they enjoy the scent ! see how busy they all are, and how each in his turn prevails.
Side 1 - Hunting, it is the noblest exercise, Makes men laborious, active, wise, Brings health, and doth the spirits delight, It helps the hearing and the sight : It teacheth arts that never slip The memory, good horsemanship, Search, sharpness, courage, and defence, .' And chaseth all ill habits thence.
Side 35 - 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.
Side 315 - By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear...

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