Great Men at Play, Τόμος 1Remington & Company, 1889 |
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Admiral Admiral Rous amusing anecdote angler appears Beau Nash betting card-playing cards Charles James Charles James Fox Charles James Napier Charles Wheatstone charming cricket curious delight Derby dinner Duke Earl eminent enjoyed exclaimed famous favourite field fishing flowers fond fortune garden gave gentleman George Selwyn habit hand Henry Fawcett Henry Raeburn hobby horse hounds hunting indulged interest John Lady letter live London looking Lord George Lord George Bentinck Lord Palmerston Lord Westbury match ment Metcalf miles mind morning nature never Newmarket night occasion party passion pastime play player pleasure pursuit race Recollections recreation remarked remembered replied ride river rode round says shooting sing Sir Walter Scott song sport sportsman story taste tells thought tion told took trout turf W. E. Forster walk whist William writes young
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Σελίδα 283 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...
Σελίδα 245 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Σελίδα 287 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Σελίδα 200 - I remember when I was a little boy I felt a great fish at the end of my line which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropped in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and I believe it was the type of all my future disappointments.
Σελίδα 272 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive...
Σελίδα 307 - ... ward. This yard I shut in with green palings, adorned it with a trellis, bordered it with a thick bed of earth from a nursery, and even contrived to have a grass-plot. The earth I filled with flowers and young trees. There was an apple-tree, from which we managed to get a pudding the second year. As to my flowers, they were allowed to be perfect. Thomas Moore, who came to see me with Lord Byron, told me he had seen no such heart's-ease. I bought the Parnaso Italiano...
Σελίδα 297 - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die (Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart) Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoil'd, nor lost one grain of gold.
Σελίδα 326 - ... set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, " Papa, your hair is on fire," of which a calm, " Is it, my love ? " and a hand rubbing out the blaze, was all the notice taken.
Σελίδα 195 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t" embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil, Purple narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass and azure culver-keys.
Σελίδα 93 - ... for which I like him. That huntsman I have known for fifteen years, and sat many an hour beside his father's death-bed. I am godfather to that whip's child. I have seen the servants of the hunt, as I have the hounds, grow up round me for two generations, and I feel for them as old friends; and like to look into their brave, honest, weatherbeaten faces.