Arrian on Coursing: The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translatd from the Greek, with Classical and Practical Annotations, and a Brief Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing Some Account of the Canes Venatici of Classical AntiquityJ. Bohn, 1831 - 314 Seiten |
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... reader will find little in it to interest him . He will perhaps consider it altogether unworthy of his notice . The sportsman , fond of the musical confusion Of hounds and echo in conjunction , will read it with indifference , as ...
... reader will find little in it to interest him . He will perhaps consider it altogether unworthy of his notice . The sportsman , fond of the musical confusion Of hounds and echo in conjunction , will read it with indifference , as ...
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... reader , who may wish to consult its medical nostrums , will find the treatise attached to the " Rei Acci- pitrariæ Scriptores " of Rigaltius ( Lutetiæ MDCX11 . ) and to the " Poetæ Venatici " of Johnson ( Londini MDCXCIX . ) . pp . 113 ...
... reader , who may wish to consult its medical nostrums , will find the treatise attached to the " Rei Acci- pitrariæ Scriptores " of Rigaltius ( Lutetiæ MDCX11 . ) and to the " Poetæ Venatici " of Johnson ( Londini MDCXCIX . ) . pp . 113 ...
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... reader will find incorporated in the instructions therein given , nearly all the arcana of the Greek and Latin Cynegetica , excepting those of Arrian's Manual , which do not appear to have been known to the poet of Barga . He employs ...
... reader will find incorporated in the instructions therein given , nearly all the arcana of the Greek and Latin Cynegetica , excepting those of Arrian's Manual , which do not appear to have been known to the poet of Barga . He employs ...
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... reader of the Nicomedian's Manual will readily acknow- ledge . His remarks on the physical indications of excellence in greyhounds , and of speed and good blood , -derived from external shape and character generally , on the ...
... reader of the Nicomedian's Manual will readily acknow- ledge . His remarks on the physical indications of excellence in greyhounds , and of speed and good blood , -derived from external shape and character generally , on the ...
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... reader will be amused with Simon Latham's epilogue to the third edition of his " Faulconry , " wherein he combats ( for he wrote in ticklish times , 1658 ) with his usual quaintness of style and illustration , the notion of the ...
... reader will be amused with Simon Latham's epilogue to the third edition of his " Faulconry , " wherein he combats ( for he wrote in ticklish times , 1658 ) with his usual quaintness of style and illustration , the notion of the ...
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Seite 54 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 199 - Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Seite 264 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Seite 199 - For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Seite 37 - It is certain no literal translation can be just to an excellent original in a superior language: but it is a great mistake to imagine (as many have done) that a rash paraphrase can make amends for this general defect...
Seite 115 - Yet if for silvan sports thy bosom glow, Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe. With what delight the rapid course I view! How does my eye the circling race pursue! He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws: She flies, he stretches: now with nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground: She turns, he winds, and soon regains the way, Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey.
Seite 100 - Fierce-menacing o'er-rule the stern debate, And quench their kindling rage; for oft in sport Begun, combat ensues, growling they snarl, Then, on their haunches rear'd, rampant they seize Each other's throats, with teeth and claws, in gore...
Seite 172 - And following with his eye the soaring dove. Implores the god to speed it through the skies, With vows of firstling lambs, and grateful sacrifice. The dove, in airy circles as she wheels. Amid the clouds the piercing arrow feels ; Quite through and through the point its passage found,^ And at his feet fell bloody to the ground.
Seite 199 - And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Seite 290 - As when th' impatient greyhound slipt from far, Bounds o'er the glebe, to course the fearful hare, She in her speed does all her safety lay; And he with double speed pursues the prey; O'er-runs her at the sitting turn, and licks His chaps in vain, and blows upon the flix, She scapes, and for the...