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| Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected — 1804 / An Amateur Sportsman, 1804 | |||||||||
Sporting Anecdotes; original and select; including characteristic sketches of eminent
persons who have appeared on the turf and the most Extraordinary Events in the Sporting
World, etc, etc. By an Amateur Sportsman [i.e. Pierce Egan]
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An Amateur Sportsman
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| Anglais |
« To concentrate the scattered rays of knowlegde, wit, and humour, though one of humble, is not among the least useful tasks of literature. Many irradiations of excellence, and many sallies of genius, are often to be found amidst pages of sterile loquacity, and volumes of unimportant matter : they are confounded with that which no one reads, or wich is read only to be forotten; and then sink into unmerited oblivon, overcome by the torpid lethargy and tasteless inanity of those parts among which they are destined to appear. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1804)