The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing, Volume 2Nattali and Bond, 1860 - 129 páginas |
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... month , shew you feeding on a willow - tree ; and you shall find him punctually to answer this very descrip- tion his lips and mouth somewhat yellow ; his eyes black as jet ; his forehead purple ; his feet and hinder parts green ; his ...
... month , shew you feeding on a willow - tree ; and you shall find him punctually to answer this very descrip- tion his lips and mouth somewhat yellow ; his eyes black as jet ; his forehead purple ; his feet and hinder parts green ; his ...
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... month . Trout will take in the dark nights of any of the subsequent months , provided they be soft and calm . " Field Sports , II . 290 . exceed , especially for three or four links next to 146 PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... month . Trout will take in the dark nights of any of the subsequent months , provided they be soft and calm . " Field Sports , II . 290 . exceed , especially for three or four links next to 146 PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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... month , nay , even the hour of the day !! A man may as well attempt to learn the Chinese charac- ters and language , as fish by books enthralled and entangled with a multiplicity of flies . I am much mistaken if he does not soon find ...
... month , nay , even the hour of the day !! A man may as well attempt to learn the Chinese charac- ters and language , as fish by books enthralled and entangled with a multiplicity of flies . I am much mistaken if he does not soon find ...
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... month of May , none but the May - fly , For every month , one , " is a pitiful lye . flies ; not only those ribbed with silver and gold 152 PART 1 . THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... month of May , none but the May - fly , For every month , one , " is a pitiful lye . flies ; not only those ribbed with silver and gold 152 PART 1 . THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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... month , near to the river side , especially against rain : the Oak - fly , on the butt or body of an oak or ash , from the beginning of May to the end of August ; it is a brownish fly and easy to be so found , and stands usually NOTE ...
... month , near to the river side , especially against rain : the Oak - fly , on the butt or body of an oak or ash , from the beginning of May to the end of August ; it is a brownish fly and easy to be so found , and stands usually NOTE ...
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Página 391 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuons eye, 'And smiling say —
Página 129 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Página 155 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie ; My music shews you have your closes, And all must die.
Página 158 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " 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.
Página 381 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Página 396 - Silesia, he found a nobleman, 'booted up to the groins,' wading himself, pulling the nets, and labouring as much as any fisherman of them all: and when some belike objected to him the baseness of his office, he excused himself, 'that if other men might hunt hares, why should not he hunt carps?
Página 392 - But crystal currents glide within their bounds ; The finny brood their wonted haunts forsake, Float in the sun, and skim along the lake; With frequent leap they range the shallow streams. Their silver coats reflect the dazzling beams. Now let the fisherman his toil s prepare, And arm himself with ev'ry watery snare ; His hooks, his lines, peruse with careful eye. Increase his tackle, and his rod re-tie.
Página 155 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 320 - FAREWELL, thou busy world, and may We never meet again ; Here I can eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more good in one short day Than he who his whole age outwears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears.
Página 302 - He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping." Therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health : and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience...