terça-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2014

Which are both vulgar and unnecessary

Which are both vulgar and unnecessary



There are many other terms in common use too plain to need explanation, and there are a good many slang phrases to be found in newspaper descriptions of runs, which are both vulgar and unnecessary. One of the finest descriptions of a fox-hunt ever written is to be found in the account of Jorrocks’ day with the Old Customer, disfigured, unfortunately, by an overload of impossible cockneyisms, put in the mouth of the impossible grocer. Another capitally-told story of a fox-hunt is to be found in Whyte Melville’s Kate Coventry. But the Rev. Charles Kingsley has, in his opening chapter of Yeast, and his papers in Fraser on North Devon, shown that if he chose he could throw all writers on hunting into the shade. Would that he would give us some hunting-songs, for he is a true poet, as well as a true sportsman!



Fonte: Tamming Horses

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