 Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short,...  The Spectator: ... - Page 1451718Full view - About this book
 | William Williams - English language - 1890 - 360 pages
...soft the zephyr blows. 18. His feet are nearing the grave. 19. I saw their thousand years of snow. 20. He knocks down a dinner with his gun twice or thrice a week. 22. Solitude sometimes is best society. 23. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 266 pages
...: he is just within the game-act, and qualified to kill an hare or a pheasant : he knocks down his dinner with his gun twice or thrice a week : and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an estate as himself. He would be a good neigh10 bour if he did not destroy... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pages
...a year, ail honest man. He is just within the Game Act, and qualified to kill a hare or a pheasant. He knocks down a dinner with his gun twice or thrice...a week ; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an estate as himself. He would be a good neighbour if he did not destroy... | |
 | Charles Edward Gough - 1909 - 226 pages
...Year, an honest Man : He is just within the Game-Act, and qualified to kill an Hare or a Pheasant : He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice...a Week ; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1911 - 630 pages
...many partridges ". " He is just within the game act, and qualified to kill an hare or a pheasant : he knocks down a dinner with his gun twice or thrice...a week ; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an estate as himself," Thus the game laws passed by the gentry had robbed... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 328 pages
...man. He is just within the game-act, and qualified to kill a hare or a pheasant. He knocks down his dinner with his gun twice or thrice a week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an estate as himself. He would be a good neighbor if he did not destroy... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...Year, an honest Man : He is just within the Game-Act, and qualified to kill an Hare or a Pheasant : He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice...a Week ; and by that Means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...pounds a year, an honest man. He is just within the gameact, and qualified to kill a hare or a pheasant. till as loving, 巂 Ϝ those who have not so good an estate [40 as himself. He would be a good neighbor if he did not destroy... | |
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