 | Joseph Hall - 1910 - 330 pages
...(Crowley, bei Madden S. 369). Hentzner beschreibt das ,,baiting of Bulls and Bears" folgendermaBen : ,,They are fastened 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 it sometimes happens, they... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - 1910 - 568 pages
...bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then 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 they are killed on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied... | |
 | Thornton Shirley Graves - 1913 - 110 pages
...distinguish theatres and bear gardens as to their functions. "There is still another place", he continues, "built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears". Yet a few lines further on, since he — like Zingerling — was not acquainted with the expression... | |
 | 1915 - 680 pages
...favorite sports. This extract from a diary of the time gives an idea of their attitude. "There is a place built in the form of a theatre which serves...worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without risque to the horns of one and the teeth of the other." The second part of the book, for the understanding... | |
 | Orie Latham Hatcher - 1916 - 430 pages
...baiting at which he was present : " 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 bulldogs; but not without risque to the dogs from the horns of one and the teeth of the other. ... To this entertainment there... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - 1917 - 560 pages
...ear.1 Paul Hentzner, the German traveler who visited London in 1598, wrote thus of the Bear Garden: There is still another place, built in the form of...by gre'at English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1925 - 520 pages
...older date, the then more novel spectacles afforded by regular stage-plays. "There is," he writes, "still another place, built in the form of a theatre,...which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears," by which he indicates the chief centre of that sport, which was situated in Southwark. The baiting... | |
 | Nicolaas Zwager - 1926 - 276 pages
...showing the nature of these performances is afforded by Paul Hentzner in his Journey into England'. There is still another 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 those great English dogs (quos lingua... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pages
...run to less sophisticated fare than stage plays, for he dwells on a different sort of amphitheatre: There is still another place, built in the form of...dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied... | |
 | Terence Hawkes - 2002 - 180 pages
...Hentzner's account of a visit to London makes no bones about the nature of the 'entertainment' on offer: There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which seives for the baiting of bears and bulls. Thev are fastened behind, and then worried by those great... | |
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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... 
