The Oakleigh Shooting CodeJames Ridgway and Sons, 1836 - 194 páginas |
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Página xv - In still retreats and flowery solitudes, To Nature's voice attends, from month to month, And day to day, through the revolving year; Admiring, sees her in her every shape ; Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart; Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more.
Página vi - To disappointment, and fallacious hope : Rich in content, in Nature's bounty rich, In herbs and fruits; whatever greens the Spring, When heaven descends in showers; or bends the bough, When Summer reddens, and when Autumn beams; Or in the wintry glebe whatever lies Conceal'd, and fattens with the richest sap...
Página vi - Oh, knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage, Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life.
Página 141 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 114 - To find the birds, when, satisfied with food, they leave the moor to bask in some favourite haunt, requires both patience and experience ; and here the mountain-bred sportsman, proves his superiority over the less practised shooter. The packs then lie closely, and occupy a small surface on some sunny brow or sheltered hollow. The best-nosed dogs will pass within a few yards, and not acknowledge them ; and patient hunting, with every advantage of the wind, must be employed, to enable the sportsman...
Página 99 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 4 - ... a bushel of pellets. The barn owl sometimes carries off rats. One evening I was sitting under a shed, and killed a very large rat, as it was coming out of a hole, about ten yards from where I was watching it I did not go to take it up, hoping to get another shot As it lay there, a barn owl pounced upon it, and flew away with it This bird has been known to catch fish.
Página 143 - ... asunder. Next to the larch, this species of tree is generally preferred by the pheasants for their roosting place ; and it is quite impossible that the poachers can shoot them in these trees. Moreover, magpies and jays will always resort to them at nightfall ; and they never fail to give the alarm, on the first appearance of an enemy. Many a time has the magpie been of essential service to me, in a night excursion after poachers.
Página 111 - The shooter looks down on the other hand from his rocky summit, and, in the bright relief, through the white rents in the clouds, sees the far-off meadows and hamlets, the woods, the rivers, and the lake. He rises, and renews his task. The invigorating influence of the bracing wind on the heights, lends the sportsman additional strength — he puts forth every effort, every nerve is strained — he feels an artificial glow after nature is exhausted, and returns to the cot where he had previously...
Página 33 - ... very near to the gun. We are not quite sure that a sportsman can be better dogged for grouse shooting than with a couple of spaniels and an old staunch pointer, unless he is a very dilatory shot, or is startled when birds rise unexpectedly, and requires every bird to be pointed. It is the power to bring down in good style bird after bird thus put up, that makes apparent the difference between the good shot and the indifferent one.