The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing, Volume 1Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... readers , as well as to Anglers , the portrait of the venerable Walton , engraved by Mr. Humphrys , after the original by Housman , in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Hawes , Prebendary of Salisbury , will perhaps prove the most ...
... readers , as well as to Anglers , the portrait of the venerable Walton , engraved by Mr. Humphrys , after the original by Housman , in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Hawes , Prebendary of Salisbury , will perhaps prove the most ...
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... Reader in the First , Second , and Fifth editions Commendatory Verses , addressed to Walton on the Publication of the Complete Angler . 5-14 15-28 THE FIRST DAY : - Containing The First Chapter , being " A Conference betwixt an Angler ...
... Reader in the First , Second , and Fifth editions Commendatory Verses , addressed to Walton on the Publication of the Complete Angler . 5-14 15-28 THE FIRST DAY : - Containing The First Chapter , being " A Conference betwixt an Angler ...
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... reader may have a more authentic testimony than my pen can purchase for him , by that of our learned Camden and others . This William Cranmer and his two forenamed sisters had some affinity and a most fami- 19 The connections of the ...
... reader may have a more authentic testimony than my pen can purchase for him , by that of our learned Camden and others . This William Cranmer and his two forenamed sisters had some affinity and a most fami- 19 The connections of the ...
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... reader may , that I , who profess myself artless , should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! but be this to the disadvantage of the person represented , certain I am it is to the ...
... reader may , that I , who profess myself artless , should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! but be this to the disadvantage of the person represented , certain I am it is to the ...
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... Reader , if thou be any or all three ; ( For these may meet and make a harmony ) Then praise this author for his useful pains Whose aim is public good not private gains . Iz . WA . In 1642 , George Cranmer's Letter to Hooker , con ...
... Reader , if thou be any or all three ; ( For these may meet and make a harmony ) Then praise this author for his useful pains Whose aim is public good not private gains . Iz . WA . In 1642 , George Cranmer's Letter to Hooker , con ...
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The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being ..., Volume 1 Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1860 |
The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being ..., Volume 1 Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1860 |
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Página 116 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Página cxxxiii - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Página cxxi - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Página 116 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Página cxxi - Lark, when she means to rejoice, to cheer herself and those that hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air; and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch but for necessity.
Página 120 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love. But Time drives flocks from field to fold; When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come.
Página 82 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil, Purple narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass, and azure culverkeys.
Página 42 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water : and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 79 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton ; a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind.