 Of the comparative good and bad temper of race-horses, the dramatist thus speaks : — ' The majority of them are playful, but their gambols are dangerous to the timid or unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when anything they do not understand...  The Chace, the Turf, and the Road - Página 161de Nimrod - 1843 - 258 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Thomas Holcroft - 1816 - 322 páginas
...gambols are dangerous to the timid or unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when any thing they do not understand forcibly catches their attention,...their general disposition to playfulness, there is a 100 great propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious. Highbred, hot in blood, exercised,... | |
 | John Le Keux - 1829 - 476 páginas
...are dangerous to the timid and unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when any thing they do not understand forcibly catches their attention,...horseman, and Carefully guarded against by the good, as serious accidents have happened to the very best : but, besides their general disposition to playfulness,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 páginas
...highly satisfied ; " you will find some time or other there are few in Newmarket that will match him.'1 It will not be amiss here to remark, that boys with...the brother of Jack Clarke, after sweating a grey horse that belonged to Lord March, with whom he lived, while he was either scraping or dressing him,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 páginas
...highly satisfied ; " you will find some time or other there are few in Newmarket that will match him.'1 It will not be amiss here to remark, that boys with...the brother of Jack Clarke, after sweating a grey horse that belonged to Lord March, with whom he lived, while he was either scraping or dressing him,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 594 páginas
...remind boys of this rule, it becomes so rooted in the memory of the iutelligent, that their danger in comparatively trifling.' Of the comparative good and...the brother of Jack Clarke, after sweating a grey horse that belonged to Jx>rd March, with whom he lived, while he was either scraping or dressing him,... | |
 | 1833 - 590 páginas
...outrageous. He started from the rank in which he was walking, tried to unseat me, endeavoured to set off full speed, and when he found he could not master...serious accidents have happened to the best. But, beside* their general disposition to playfulness, there is a great propensity in them to become what... | |
 | Nimrod - 1851 - 170 páginas
...to remind boys of this rule, it becomes so rooted in the memory of the intelligent, that their anger is comparatively trifling." Of the comparative good...the brother of Jack Clarke, after sweating a grey horse that belonged to Lord March, with whom he lived, while he was either scraping or dressing him,... | |
 | Thomas Holcroft - 1852 - 336 páginas
...gambols are dangerous to the timid or unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when any thing they do not understand forcibly catches their attention,...propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious. High bred, hot in blood, exercised, fed, and dressed so as to bring that heat to perfection, their... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 páginas
...temperaments and habits of blood-horses there are great varieties, and those very strongly contrasted. The majority of them are playful, but their gambols...propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious. High bred, hot in blood, exercised, fed and dressed so as to bring that heat to perfection, their tender... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1882 - 420 páginas
...marked characters of their own, like men and boys, within the broad outlines of their common equinity. "The majority of them are playful, but their gambols...propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious. Highbred, hot in blood, exercised, fed, and dressed so as to bring that heat to perfection, their tender... | |
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