 Dashington ; a youth excelling In all the learning commonly provided For those who choose that classic station For finishing their education. That is — he understood computing The odds at any race or match ; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could...  Facetiæ Cantabrigienses, by Socius - Page 20by Richard Gooch - 1825Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 654 pages
...race or match ; Wai a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows — knock down the watchPlay truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats...and rustication, So far from working reformation, SeemM but to make his lapses greater, Till be was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | 1822 - 640 pages
...or match ; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats...and rustication, ' So far from working reformation, Seem'd but to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next oflence Would have this certain... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...Could kick up rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink — iie cravats — and drive a tandem. Remonstrance, fine,...and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd but to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | English poetry - 1823 - 804 pages
...or match ; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats...and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd but to make his lapses greater ; Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 370 pages
...or match; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats...and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd hut to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 374 pages
...pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at randomDrink — tie cravats — and drive a tandem. Remonstrance,...and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd hut to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...or match -, "as a dead hand at pigeon-shooting; Uuld kick up rows — knock down the watch— •ruy truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats — and drive a tandem. AemoBstrance, fine, and rustication, *> far from working reformation, Sectn'd but to make his lapses... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 372 pages
...kick up rows—knock down the watch— Play truant and the rake at random— Drink—tie cravats—and drive a tandem. Remonstrance, fine, and rustication, So far from working reformation, , • Seem'd hut to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | Gething - 1838 - 426 pages
...rows — knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink — tie cravats — drive a tandem. Remonstrance, fine, and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd but to make his lapses greater, Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1846 - 276 pages
...race or match; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting; Could kick up rows, knock down the watch — Play truant and the rake at random — Drink— tie cravats...and rustication, So far from working reformation, Seem'd but to make his lapses greater. Till he was warn'd that next offence Would have this certain... | |
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