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" There is still another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears... "
Shakespeare in Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [With ...
by Albert Cohn - 1865
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Poetaster, Issues 27-28

Ben Jonson - Poets, Latin - 1616 - 418 pages
...Poetaster. AD 32. Beares-Colledge. ie Bear-garden, on the Bank-side. Cf. Hentzner, Acct. of Eng. p. 42 : 'There is still another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears, they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without...
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A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII.

Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...concluded with excellent music, variety of dances, and the excessive applause of those that are present. - There is still another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears, they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not •without...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...these exhibitions, which he describes in the following manner : speaking of the theatres he says, " there is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...of these exhibitions, which he circumstantially describes. Speaking of the Theatres, he says, — " There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of hull* and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - England - 1823 - 680 pages
...glass windows, painting, and gilding ; it is kept upon dry ground, and sheltered from the weather. There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs : but not without...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...of these exhibitions, which he circumstantially describes. Speaking of the Theatre«, he says, — " There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bull* and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 3

Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...before quoted, gives the following particulars of the sports at Paris Garden, in London. There is a place built" in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears. They are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 57

1869 - 514 pages
...furnish an ample account of the cruelties practised during the days of the Virgin Queen : " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves...behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without great risk to tho dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and...
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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and ..., Volume 4

Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 606 pages
...these exhibitions, which he thus circumstantially describes. Speaking of the theatres, he says: — ' There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without...
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The Sportsman

1869 - 514 pages
...furnish an ample account of the cruelties practised during the days of the Virgin Queen : " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves...behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and...
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