The Playground and the Parlour: A Handbook of Boys' Games, Sports, and AmusementsT. Nelson and Sons, 1868 - 354 pages |
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... hoops , eight wooden balls ( of different colours ) , eight mallets ( corresponding to the balls in colour ) , and eight clips ( also of various colours ) . The best mallets are made of ash ; the best balls of beech - wood . Sets of ...
... hoops , eight wooden balls ( of different colours ) , eight mallets ( corresponding to the balls in colour ) , and eight clips ( also of various colours ) . The best mallets are made of ash ; the best balls of beech - wood . Sets of ...
Page 94
... simul- taneously from the turning stick , so as to prevent the possi- bility of confusion . ARRANGING THE GROUND . The plan of the original game is as follows : - 5 12 E 10 Occasionally hoops 4 and 9 are removed , and a 94 CROQUET .
... simul- taneously from the turning stick , so as to prevent the possi- bility of confusion . ARRANGING THE GROUND . The plan of the original game is as follows : - 5 12 E 10 Occasionally hoops 4 and 9 are removed , and a 94 CROQUET .
Page 95
... hoops now to fix are the side hoops . These should be parallel to the centre line , and six yards ( or two - tenths ) from it on each side . Hoops 3 and 10 must be at the same distance from number 2 , and hoops 5 and 8 from hoop 6. The ...
... hoops now to fix are the side hoops . These should be parallel to the centre line , and six yards ( or two - tenths ) from it on each side . Hoops 3 and 10 must be at the same distance from number 2 , and hoops 5 and 8 from hoop 6. The ...
Page 96
... hoops , and moved forward or backward as the players move . The object of the game is to drive your ball in succession through all the hoops , in the direction indicated by the dotted lines on the diagram , and to strike the two posts ...
... hoops , and moved forward or backward as the players move . The object of the game is to drive your ball in succession through all the hoops , in the direction indicated by the dotted lines on the diagram , and to strike the two posts ...
Page 97
... hoop . It is this act of croquet which makes all the interest and difficulty of the game . 66 Now , there is either a tight " croquet or a " loose " croquet . In the former , the striker fixes his foot firmly on the ball ; in the latter ...
... hoop . It is this act of croquet which makes all the interest and difficulty of the game . 66 Now , there is either a tight " croquet or a " loose " croquet . In the former , the striker fixes his foot firmly on the ball ; in the latter ...
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Page 295 - COME, sleep ; O sleep ! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low ; With shield of proof, shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw.
Page 191 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 310 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 162 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 322 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 348 - THEBE is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishop-like he finds a perch, And dormitory too.
Page 334 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 14 - But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music has thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou...
Page 280 - There is an old saying that if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Page 310 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...