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... body of Christ extended on an anchor , and many of them to be engraven very small in helitropium stones , and set in gold ; and of these he sent to many of his dearest friends , to be used as seals , or rings , and kept as memorials of ...
... body of Christ extended on an anchor , and many of them to be engraven very small in helitropium stones , and set in gold ; and of these he sent to many of his dearest friends , to be used as seals , or rings , and kept as memorials of ...
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... body capable of appreciating and enjoying the pleasures a life of rural quietude affords ; and if to these be added the cocoëthes scribendi , and the mental occupation of the study , for rainy days : - alone , To read , and meditate ...
... body capable of appreciating and enjoying the pleasures a life of rural quietude affords ; and if to these be added the cocoëthes scribendi , and the mental occupation of the study , for rainy days : - alone , To read , and meditate ...
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... body be fish too , then I may say , that a fish will walk * See " The Historie of Fovre Footed Beastes , " by the Rev. Edw . Topsell , Lond . 1607 , • upon land , for an Otter does so sometimes. 82 THE COMPLETE ANGLER . ...
... body be fish too , then I may say , that a fish will walk * See " The Historie of Fovre Footed Beastes , " by the Rev. Edw . Topsell , Lond . 1607 , • upon land , for an Otter does so sometimes. 82 THE COMPLETE ANGLER . ...
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... body , but that he eats waterish , and that the flesh of him is not firm , but short and tasteless . The French esteem him so mean , as to call him un Villain ; nevertheless he may be so dressed as to make him very good meat ; as namely ...
... body , but that he eats waterish , and that the flesh of him is not firm , but short and tasteless . The French esteem him so mean , as to call him un Villain ; nevertheless he may be so dressed as to make him very good meat ; as namely ...
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... body ' not washed after he is gutted , as indeed no fish should be . Well , Scholar , you see what pains I have taken to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub . And now I will give you some rules how to catch him ; and I am ...
... body ' not washed after he is gutted , as indeed no fish should be . Well , Scholar , you see what pains I have taken to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub . And now I will give you some rules how to catch him ; and I am ...
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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.