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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Página 131
... scholar and me " a morning - drink , and a bit of meat to breakfast : and be sure to get a dish of meat or two against supper , for we shall come home as hungry as hawks . Come , scholar , let's be going . b VENATOR . Well now , good ...
... scholar and me " a morning - drink , and a bit of meat to breakfast : and be sure to get a dish of meat or two against supper , for we shall come home as hungry as hawks . Come , scholar , let's be going . b VENATOR . Well now , good ...
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... scholar , you see the river stops our morning walk and I will also here stop my discourse : only as we sit down under this honeysuckle hedge , whilst I look a line to fit the rod that our brother Peter hath lent NOTE . ] View Sir Fra ...
... scholar , you see the river stops our morning walk and I will also here stop my discourse : only as we sit down under this honeysuckle hedge , whilst I look a line to fit the rod that our brother Peter hath lent NOTE . ] View Sir Fra ...
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... scholar , it is now past five of the clock : we will fish till nine ; and then go to breakfast . Go you to yonder sycamore - tree , and hide your bottle of drink under the hollow root of it ; for about that time , and in that place , we ...
... scholar , it is now past five of the clock : we will fish till nine ; and then go to breakfast . Go you to yonder sycamore - tree , and hide your bottle of drink under the hollow root of it ; for about that time , and in that place , we ...
Página 142
... scholar ; you see I have hold of a good fish : I now see it is a Trout . I pray , put that net under him ; and touch not my line , for if you do , then we break all . Well done , scholar : I thank you . Now for another . Trust me , I ...
... scholar ; you see I have hold of a good fish : I now see it is a Trout . I pray , put that net under him ; and touch not my line , for if you do , then we break all . Well done , scholar : I thank you . Now for another . Trust me , I ...
Página 142
... breakfast what swy you , Scholar to the providence of an Id " anglers ? does not the meat tasto net ! " . and was not this place well . Sen. it and was thus answered : " I lent you. Witham Plains Chancery Lane onder 180 ...
... breakfast what swy you , Scholar to the providence of an Id " anglers ? does not the meat tasto net ! " . and was not this place well . Sen. it and was thus answered : " I lent you. Witham Plains Chancery Lane onder 180 ...
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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...