The Quarterly Review, Volume 49William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1833 |
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Page 377
... winners at the Pythian games is undoubted , and we see no conclusive reason for discrediting the story that his poems were admired beyond those of his great con- temporary . For although we were to assume , as we do assume , that the ...
... winners at the Pythian games is undoubted , and we see no conclusive reason for discrediting the story that his poems were admired beyond those of his great con- temporary . For although we were to assume , as we do assume , that the ...
Page 381
... winner , and no man lost either his character or his money . * But still , great as must have Of the training and management of the Olympic race - horse we are unfortunately left in ignorance - all that can be inferred being the fact ...
... winner , and no man lost either his character or his money . * But still , great as must have Of the training and management of the Olympic race - horse we are unfortunately left in ignorance - all that can be inferred being the fact ...
Page 382
... winner of the Olympic crown . Considerable obscurity , however , hangs over most of the details of the Olympic turf , and par- ticularly as regards the classing of the riders , and the weights the horses carried . It is generally ...
... winner of the Olympic crown . Considerable obscurity , however , hangs over most of the details of the Olympic turf , and par- ticularly as regards the classing of the riders , and the weights the horses carried . It is generally ...
Page 386
... winner of the Derby and Oaks great stakes , & c . & c . Our present gracious monarch- bred upon another element - has no taste for this sport ; but con- tinued it for a short time after his brother's death to run out his engagements ...
... winner of the Derby and Oaks great stakes , & c . & c . Our present gracious monarch- bred upon another element - has no taste for this sport ; but con- tinued it for a short time after his brother's death to run out his engagements ...
Page 388
... winner by the colour that of every jockey who rides being handed to him before starting . Indeed , the horses are seldom seen by him until the race begins , as they generally proceed from their stables to the saddling - house by a ...
... winner by the colour that of every jockey who rides being handed to him before starting . Indeed , the horses are seldom seen by him until the race begins , as they generally proceed from their stables to the saddling - house by a ...
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