hunting quotes
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tother say, 'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?' 'In behint yon auld fail dye, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.'
There are English counties like hunting-tunes Played on the keys of a postboy's horn, But I will remember where I was born.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
Her legs were such Diana shows, When tuckt up she a hunting goes; With buskins shortened to descry The happy dawning of her thigh.
If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.
It isverystrange, and verymelancholy, thatthepaucityof humanpleasuresshould persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
'Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.'
Most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I understand very little.
Hunting the author, painter and musician is a traditional and popular sport. In this country poet-baiting at an early stage assumed the place of bull-baiting.
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