Angling: Or, How to Angle, and where to GoG. Routledge, 1854 - 188 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abound amusement angler angling artificial flies bait Ballyshannon banks barbel beautiful bottom bottom-fishing bream carp caught chub cock's hackle colour considerable dace deep distance district dotterel eels England fair falls favourable favourite feather feeders feet first-rate fisher fishing waters flows fly-fishing frequently gentle gold twist greyling ground gudgeons hook inches Ireland killing kinds of fish kinds of flies lakes large trout legs length likewise Llyn localities Loch miles minnow mode mohair mountain never numerous peacock's herl perch perch fishing pike piscatory ponds pounds pounds weight ramble red worms ribbed with gold river river Erne roach rod-fisher salmon and trout scarcely scenery Scotland season sheet of water silk smolt Solway Firth spawn sport spots springs starling's wing streams success tackle tail taken tench Thames tourist town travelling tributaries trolling vicinity Wales weight worms
Passagens conhecidas
Página 156 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 145 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Página 144 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 21 - Tis high time we were gone, Down and upward, that all may have pleasure, Till, here meeting at night, We shall have the delight To discourse of our fortunes at leisure.
Página 118 - His very near ally, and both for scale and fin., In taste, and for his bait (indeed) his next of kin, The pretty slender dare, of many called the dace, Within my liquid.
Página 117 - The barbel, than which fish a braver doth not swim, Nor greater for the ford within my spacious brim, Nor (newly taken) more the curious taste doth please; The grayling, whose great spawn is big as any pease; The perch with pricking fins, against the pike prepared, As nature had thereon bestowed this stronger guard, His daintiness to keep (each curious palate's proof) From his vile ravenous...
Página 162 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
Página 104 - With thine, much purer, to compare; The rapid Garonne and the winding Seine Are both too mean, Beloved Dove, with thee To vie priority; Nay, Tame and Isis, when conjoined, submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver feet.
Página 135 - That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw ; Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand. That, bended end to end, and flirted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast ; so doth the salmon vault : And if at first he fail, a second somersault He instantly essays ; and from his nimble wing Still gerting, never leaves until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounding heap.
Página 145 - While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride ; The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch and groves of pine. And hedges flower'd with eglantine.