The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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Page 31
... falcons , for he thought that something might happen in the meanwhile , or some news be brought in , and that the delay of an hour had often , ere now , been found profitable .'- Vol . i . pp . 475-6 . No man of his times , none of the ...
... falcons , for he thought that something might happen in the meanwhile , or some news be brought in , and that the delay of an hour had often , ere now , been found profitable .'- Vol . i . pp . 475-6 . No man of his times , none of the ...
Page 169
... falcon , for centuries the favourite of kings and princes -their companion in the palace and their confederate in the field - long since degraded to the ranks of feathered vermin , has been superseded by the fowling - piece , and the ...
... falcon , for centuries the favourite of kings and princes -their companion in the palace and their confederate in the field - long since degraded to the ranks of feathered vermin , has been superseded by the fowling - piece , and the ...
Page 171
... falcons to catch cranes . ' King Alfred certainly was a proficient in this , as in every other manly sport , and is ... falcon ! Subsequently , p . 39 , appears a very humiliating confession to that effect . Schlegel says , ' un ...
... falcons to catch cranes . ' King Alfred certainly was a proficient in this , as in every other manly sport , and is ... falcon ! Subsequently , p . 39 , appears a very humiliating confession to that effect . Schlegel says , ' un ...
Page 172
... falcon's eggs was punished with fine and imprisonment , and these and other penalties were strictly enforced during ... falcons , and eagles , in his own woods , with heronries also . ' 6 But , in spite of these concessions , we ...
... falcon's eggs was punished with fine and imprisonment , and these and other penalties were strictly enforced during ... falcons , and eagles , in his own woods , with heronries also . ' 6 But , in spite of these concessions , we ...
Page 173
... falcon would appear to 70 have been enormous , while the falcons from Norway and Iceland were considered bribes which a king might accept without dis- honour . In the reign of King John , when the distinctions of classes were relaxed ...
... falcon would appear to 70 have been enormous , while the falcons from Norway and Iceland were considered bribes which a king might accept without dis- honour . In the reign of King John , when the distinctions of classes were relaxed ...
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