The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. With a new intr. and notes [by H.K.S. Causton].1851 |
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... Pisc . Ecl . , Dedication . In 1745 , when it appears he had a wife and seven children , he is found applying to his friend , Dr. Birch , for the situation of door- keeper or messenger to the Royal Society ; so preferable , to his ...
... Pisc . Ecl . , Dedication . In 1745 , when it appears he had a wife and seven children , he is found applying to his friend , Dr. Birch , for the situation of door- keeper or messenger to the Royal Society ; so preferable , to his ...
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... PISC . I am right glad to hear your answers : and , in confidence you speak the truth , I shall put on a boldness to ask you , Sir , whether business or pleasure caused you to be so early up , and walk so fast ; for this other Gentleman ...
... PISC . I am right glad to hear your answers : and , in confidence you speak the truth , I shall put on a boldness to ask you , Sir , whether business or pleasure caused you to be so early up , and walk so fast ; for this other Gentleman ...
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... PISC . Oh ! Sir , if they do , it is not so much to me and my fraternity , as those base vermin the Otters do . Auc . Why , Sir , I pray , of what fraternity are you , that you are so angry with the poor Otters ? PISC . I am , Sir , a ...
... PISC . Oh ! Sir , if they do , it is not so much to me and my fraternity , as those base vermin the Otters do . Auc . Why , Sir , I pray , of what fraternity are you , that you are so angry with the poor Otters ? PISC . I am , Sir , a ...
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... Pisc . Sir , I hope you will not judge my earnest- ness to be impatience and for my simplicity , if by that you mean a harmlessness , or that simplicity which was usually found in the primitive Christians , who were , as most Anglers ...
... Pisc . Sir , I hope you will not judge my earnest- ness to be impatience and for my simplicity , if by that you mean a harmlessness , or that simplicity which was usually found in the primitive Christians , who were , as most Anglers ...
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... PISC . Well , now Mr. Venator , you shall neither want time nor my attention to hear you enlarge your discourse concerning Hunting . VEN . Not I , Sir ; I remember you said that Angling itself was of great antiquity , and a perfect art ...
... PISC . Well , now Mr. Venator , you shall neither want time nor my attention to hear you enlarge your discourse concerning Hunting . VEN . Not I , Sir ; I remember you said that Angling itself was of great antiquity , and a perfect art ...
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The complete angler, of I. Walton and C. Cotton, with variorum notes, ed. by ... Izaak Walton Visualização integral - 1856 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Angling artificial fly bait Barbel belly better betwixt bite body bottom Bream bred breed Browne cadis called Carp catch caught CHAP Charles Cotton Chub colour commend Complete Angler Dace discourse doth doubtless dubbing earth excellent feather feed fish flies fly-fishing frog Gesner give Grayling hackle hair happy hath head Henry Kent Causton honest hook Izaak Walton John Chalkhill kind let me tell live London look mallard Master meat Minnow month Moses Browne never observed Otter Pike PISC PISCATOR pleasant pleasure pond recreation river river Dove Roach Salmon Scholar season shew silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport stream sweet tail taken Thomas Ken three or four told Trout Trout and Grayling usually verjuice VIAT wings worm yellow
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Página 110 - 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 109 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Página 147 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Página 292 - 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 ; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, — a blessing that money cannot buy ; and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Página 108 - 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 110 - But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 46 - I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Página 242 - tis beloved by many: Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping: Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping: Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure.
Página 114 - I'll promise you I'll sing a song that was lately made at my request by Mr. William Basse, one that hath made the choice songs of the
Página lviii - And I am the willinger to justify the pleasant part of it, because though it is known I can be serious at seasonable times, yet the whole Discourse is, or rather was, a picture of my own disposition, especially in such days and times as I have laid aside business, and gone a fishing with honest Nat. and R. Roe ; but they are gone, and with them most of my pleasant hours, even as a shadow that passeth away and returns not.