The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles CottonLittle, Brown, 1867 - 445 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 43
Página 49
... stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy . No , no , Sir , we enjoy a contentedness above the reach of such dispositions , and as the learned and ingenious Montaigne says like himself freely , " When my cat ...
... stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy . No , no , Sir , we enjoy a contentedness above the reach of such dispositions , and as the learned and ingenious Montaigne says like himself freely , " When my cat ...
Página 52
... stands in need of my element . The waters cannot preserve the fish without air , witness the not breaking of ice in an extreme frost : the reason is , for that if the inspiring and expiring organ of any animal be stopped , it suddenly ...
... stands in need of my element . The waters cannot preserve the fish without air , witness the not breaking of ice in an extreme frost : the reason is , for that if the inspiring and expiring organ of any animal be stopped , it suddenly ...
Página 70
... Josephus , that learned Jew , tells us of a river in Judæa that runs swiftly all the six days of the week , and stands still and rests all their Sabbath . But I will lay aside my discourse of rivers , 70 [ PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... Josephus , that learned Jew , tells us of a river in Judæa that runs swiftly all the six days of the week , and stands still and rests all their Sabbath . But I will lay aside my discourse of rivers , 70 [ PART I. THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
Página 81
... stands yet undefaced : a man that in the Reformation of Queen Elizabeth , not that of Henry VIII . , was so noted for his meek spirit , deep learning , prudence , and piety , that the then Par- F liament and Convocation both chose ...
... stands yet undefaced : a man that in the Reformation of Queen Elizabeth , not that of Henry VIII . , was so noted for his meek spirit , deep learning , prudence , and piety , that the then Par- F liament and Convocation both chose ...
Página 82
... stand as a rule for faith and manners to their posterity . And the good old man , though he was very learned , yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many nor by hard questions , like an honest Angler , made that good , plain ...
... stand as a rule for faith and manners to their posterity . And the good old man , though he was very learned , yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many nor by hard questions , like an honest Angler , made that good , plain ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation (A Modern ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |
The Compleat Angler: or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização de excertos - 1996 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
artificial fly bait Barbel Bartas belly better betwixt bite body bottom bred breed brown called camlet Carp catch caught Chap CHARLES COTTON Chub color Complete Angler Coridon discourse Dorsal fin doth doubtless Du Bartas dubbing earth Edition excellent feather feed fish flies frog Gesner give Grayling hackle hair hath hawk Hawkins head honest hook Hunting Izaak Walton John kill kind learned let me tell live Lond look mallard Master meadows meat Minnow month mouth never observed Otter Pearch Pike PISC PISCATOR pleasant pleasure pond pray preceding list recreation river river Dove Roach Salmon Scholar season silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport stream sweet tail taken thank told Trout usually verses VIAT wings worm yellow
Passagens conhecidas
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...