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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... stone - fly , the red - fly , the moor - fly , the tawny - fly , the shell - fly , the cloudy or blackish - fly , the flag - fly , the vine - fly ; there be of flies , caterpillars , and canker - flies , and bear - flies ; and T indeed ...
... stone - fly , the red - fly , the moor - fly , the tawny - fly , the shell - fly , the cloudy or blackish - fly , the flag - fly , the vine - fly ; there be of flies , caterpillars , and canker - flies , and bear - flies ; and T indeed ...
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... , was Leonard Mascall , from whose " Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line , & c . 4to . Lond . 1600 , " the ensuing list of flies is copied verbatim . feathers under his tail . The third is the stone 144 PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... , was Leonard Mascall , from whose " Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line , & c . 4to . Lond . 1600 , " the ensuing list of flies is copied verbatim . feathers under his tail . The third is the stone 144 PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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... stone - fly , in April the body is made of black wool ; made yellow under the wings and under the tail , and so made with wings of the drake . The fourth is the ruddy - fly , in the beginning of May : the body made of red wool , wrapt ...
... stone - fly , in April the body is made of black wool ; made yellow under the wings and under the tail , and so made with wings of the drake . The fourth is the ruddy - fly , in the beginning of May : the body made of red wool , wrapt ...
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... stones together very deep under the water , those that stand on a bank VARIATION . ] if the night be dark ; for then he lies boldly near the top of the water , watching the motion of any frog or water - mouse , or rat betwixt him and ...
... stones together very deep under the water , those that stand on a bank VARIATION . ] if the night be dark ; for then he lies boldly near the top of the water , watching the motion of any frog or water - mouse , or rat betwixt him and ...
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... stones , logs , or banks that project forward into the river , and against which the stream drives ; shallows between two streams ; or , towards the latter end of the summer , mill - tails and old weirs . His hold is usually in the deep ...
... stones , logs , or banks that project forward into the river , and against which the stream drives ; shallows between two streams ; or , towards the latter end of the summer , mill - tails and old weirs . His hold is usually in the deep ...
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angler Art of Angling artificial fly Ashbourn bait Barbel belly Berkeley better betwixt bite body bottom Bream breed brown CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called camlet Carp catch caught Chap Charles Cotton colour Complete Angler Dace discourse dubbing edition excellent feed fish flies frog Gesner give Green-drake grey feather ground-bait Gudgeon hackle hair hath head honest hook inches kill kind let me tell live lob-worms London mallard master minnow mixt month never night NOTE continued observed Perch Pike PISCATOR pond Richmond Palace river river Dove river Wye Roach Salmon scholar season shew silk sometimes song spawn sport Stone-fly stream sweet swift tackle tail taken Tench Thames thee thou told Trout and Grayling UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA VARIATION VENATOR verses VIATOR Walton weeds wind wings wool worm yellow
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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...