The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's RecreationWiley & Putnam, 1847 - 249 páginas |
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... keeping vast numbers of fishermen to increase his stock , but , principally , to supply the pre- serves with little fish as food : yet , rather than serve up any from his ponds , he bought fish in the markets of Puteoli , for his ...
... keeping vast numbers of fishermen to increase his stock , but , principally , to supply the pre- serves with little fish as food : yet , rather than serve up any from his ponds , he bought fish in the markets of Puteoli , for his ...
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... keep their Race alive ; Your book foreshews and makes it evident That in few years we cannot keep a Lent . But yet , Sir , ' t was well done , therein to put To every one of these Fish so faire a cut . That so , when we o ' th ' fish ...
... keep their Race alive ; Your book foreshews and makes it evident That in few years we cannot keep a Lent . But yet , Sir , ' t was well done , therein to put To every one of these Fish so faire a cut . That so , when we o ' th ' fish ...
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... keeping the commandments as his lordship was for breaking them . Dat veniam corvis , vexat censura columbas ! As a contrast to this , read Wordsworth's ( the author of Hartleap Well , whose happy lot it is to fish the Dove ) Sonnet to ...
... keeping the commandments as his lordship was for breaking them . Dat veniam corvis , vexat censura columbas ! As a contrast to this , read Wordsworth's ( the author of Hartleap Well , whose happy lot it is to fish the Dove ) Sonnet to ...
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... keeping throughout , perhaps not equalled , certainly never excelled , by poetry or prose , ancient or modern . It is in every respect an original work , though it has been the pattern which many since " This Art seems to have arrived ...
... keeping throughout , perhaps not equalled , certainly never excelled , by poetry or prose , ancient or modern . It is in every respect an original work , though it has been the pattern which many since " This Art seems to have arrived ...
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... keep otter - dogs ought to have pensions from the king to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base otters , they do so much mischief . VEN . But what say you to the foxes of the nation , would not you as willingly have ...
... keep otter - dogs ought to have pensions from the king to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base otters , they do so much mischief . VEN . But what say you to the foxes of the nation , would not you as willingly have ...
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The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1847 |
The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1847 |
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2d edit Art of Angling artificial fly Ausonius bait barbel better bite body breed brown called carp catch Charles Cotton chub color Complete Angler copy Cotton delight discourse doth dubbing Eclogues eels English especially excellent feather feed fish and fishing fishers flies fly-fishing frog Gervase Markham Gesner give grayling hackle hair Harris Nicholas hath Hawking Hawkins honest hook Hunting Izaak Izaak Walton kind lake learned live Lond London minnow month never observed Oppian pearch pike Pisc Piscator pleasant pleasure poem pond pounds pounds weight printed published reader recreation river river Dove roach salmon says Scholar season silk sing song spawn sport stream sweet tail taken tell thee thou translated treatise trout trysting tree verses VIAT vols Walton wings worm yellow
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Página 73 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. 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 75 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds, Thy Coral clasps and Amber studs, All these in me no means can move, To come to thee, and be thy love.
Página 72 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Página 69 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Página vii - Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish spears?
Página 73 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Página 246 - I'll be rather. Would the World now adopt me for her heir ; Would beauty's Queen entitle me the fair ; Fame speak me fortune's minion ; could I
Página 67 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing. insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Página 106 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.