The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles CottonLittle, Brown, 1867 - 445 páginas |
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... Song 7. Landing the Trout . 8. The Scholar's Recital . 98 118 141 217 9. The Angler's Song . 245 IO . The Farewell at Tottenham Cross 284 II . Landing the Grayling 335 12. The Lesson 355 ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD . PART I. Ye Finny Tribes ,
... Song 7. Landing the Trout . 8. The Scholar's Recital . 98 118 141 217 9. The Angler's Song . 245 IO . The Farewell at Tottenham Cross 284 II . Landing the Grayling 335 12. The Lesson 355 ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD . PART I. Ye Finny Tribes ,
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... scholar , and be instructed in the art itself which you so much magnify . PISC . O Sir , doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with an artificial fly ? -a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than ...
... scholar , and be instructed in the art itself which you so much magnify . PISC . O Sir , doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with an artificial fly ? -a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than ...
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... scholar ; for you are such a compan- ion , and have so quickly caught and so excellently cooked this fish , as makes me ambitious to be your scholar . PISC . Give me your hand ; from this time for- ward I will be your master , and teach ...
... scholar ; for you are such a compan- ion , and have so quickly caught and so excellently cooked this fish , as makes me ambitious to be your scholar . PISC . Give me your hand ; from this time for- ward I will be your master , and teach ...
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... - and his body not washed after he is gutted , as indeed no fish should be . Well , Scholar , you see what pains I have taken to 1 recover the lost credit of the poor , despised Chub CHAP . III . ] THE COMPLETE ANGLER . ΙΟΙ.
... - and his body not washed after he is gutted , as indeed no fish should be . Well , Scholar , you see what pains I have taken to 1 recover the lost credit of the poor , despised Chub CHAP . III . ] THE COMPLETE ANGLER . ΙΟΙ.
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... scholar of you . I now see that , with advice and practice , you will make an Angler in a short time . Have but a love to it , and I'll warrant you . VEN . But , Master , what if I could not have found a grasshopper ? PISC . Then I may ...
... scholar of you . I now see that , with advice and practice , you will make an Angler in a short time . Have but a love to it , and I'll warrant you . VEN . But , Master , what if I could not have found a grasshopper ? PISC . Then I may ...
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Página 154 - 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 118 - Slippers, lined choicely 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 119 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Página 117 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILKWOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it "Come, shepherds, deck your herds," or "As at noon Dulcina rested," or "Phillida flouts me," or "Chevy Chace," or "Johnny Armstrong,
Página 288 - In the loose rhymes of every poetaster ? Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives, Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
Página 84 - Twas an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent:' for Angling was, after tedious study, ' a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness :' and ' that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Página 120 - ... 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 10 - Here in this despis'd recess, Would I maugre winter's cold, And the summer's worst excess, Try to live out to sixty full years old, And all the while Without an envious eye On any thriving under Fortune's smile...
Página 67 - ... meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person ;) so if this antiquity of angling, which for my part I have not forced, shall, like an ancient family, be either an...
Página 280 - God had given health and plenty ; but a wife that nature had made peevish, and her husband's riches had made purse-proud ; and must, because she was rich, and for no other virtue, sit in the highest pew in the church ; which being denied her, she engaged her husband into a contention for it, and at last into a lawsuit with a dogged neighbour who was as rich as he, and had a wife as peevish and purse-proud as the other; and this lawsuit begot higher oppositions...