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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 ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without great... "
Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings ... - Page 123
by Joseph Quincy Adams - 1917 - 473 pages
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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...by great English bull-dogs; but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens...
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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...great English bull-dogs; but not •without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of thc other; and it sometimes happens...
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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...by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens...
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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...by great English bull-dogs : but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens...
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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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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 for the baiting of bears and bulls ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without...
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The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, ...: Goats, sheep, wild and ...

William Jardine - Ruminants - 1836 - 392 pages
...present at one of the performances. " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for baiting of bulls and bears ; they are fastened behind,...worried by great English bull-dogs ; but not without risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...manner: speaking of the theatre, he says, "There is slill another place, built in the form of a Ihealre, o default, Never presume to sit above the salt : Third,...twise ; Fourth, that he use all common courtesies : risque to the dogs, from ibc horns of the one, and the leeih of the other ; and it sometimes happens...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and ...

Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 420 pages
...present at one of the performances: " There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind,...worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens...
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