The horse and his riderJ. Murray, 1861 - 226 páginas |
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Página 113 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 8 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 221 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man.
Página 96 - Network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.
Página 182 - ... other into the field with his hounds. As a horseman, however, he has ever been super-excellent. He sits in his saddle as if he were part of his horse, and his seat displays vast power over his frame. In addition to his power, his hand is equal to Chifney's, and the advantage he experiences from it may be gleaned from the following expression. Being seen one day hunting his hounds on Radical, always a difficult, but at that time a more than commonly difficult horse to ride, he was asked by a friend...
Página 219 - There is no religion in all this. It is mere sentimentalism. Religion belongs to every day ; to the place of business as much as to the church. High in an ancient belfry there is a clock, and once a week the old sexton winds it up ; but it has neither dial plate nor hands. The pendulum swings, and there it goes, ticking, ticking, day in and day out, unnoticed and useless. What the old clock is, in its dark chamber, keeping time to itself, but never showing it, that is the mere sentimentality of religion,...
Página 182 - I'll be with my hounds," and all those who have seen him in the field must acknowledge he made no vain boast of his prowess. His falls were countless, and no wonder ! for he rode at places which he knew no horse could leap over, but his object was to get one way or other into the field with his hounds.
Página 11 - go in peace; you. are a Galla ; this is a curse upon them and their children, their corn, grass and cattle, if ever they lift their hand against you or yours, or do not defend you to the utmost, if attacked by others, or endeavour to defeat any design they may hear is intended against you.
Página 185 - Harborough country," replied the other, " the fences are so large." " Oh ! " observed Mr. Smith, " there is no place you cannot get over with a fall.
Página 182 - No ; from the first day of the season to the last, he was always the same man, the same desperate fellow over a country, and unquestionably possessing on every occasion, and at every hour of the day, the most bull-dog-like nerve ever exhibited in a saddle. His motto was,