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... mind of his most voluminous editor , as to " the nature and extent of his acquirements . It is not * It has never been shown how Izaak Walton became possessed of a piece of garden ground , lying near the goal , in the parish of Stafford ...
... mind of his most voluminous editor , as to " the nature and extent of his acquirements . It is not * It has never been shown how Izaak Walton became possessed of a piece of garden ground , lying near the goal , in the parish of Stafford ...
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... mind ; and if he received no other than the rudiments of a classical education to be had " free " in his native town , there need have been little question whether he had read the latin authors quoted in his writings , in their original ...
... mind ; and if he received no other than the rudiments of a classical education to be had " free " in his native town , there need have been little question whether he had read the latin authors quoted in his writings , in their original ...
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... mind a strong impression of personal experience . In thus providing for the advancement of others had he a sensitive reminiscence of his own early difficulties ? the theory propounded , of his early apprenticeship and early trading , it ...
... mind a strong impression of personal experience . In thus providing for the advancement of others had he a sensitive reminiscence of his own early difficulties ? the theory propounded , of his early apprenticeship and early trading , it ...
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... mind and unassuming in the world's conceit , would have eschewed as a vain assumption , with the same heartiness that he would have shunned a crime . His earliest Editor * was satisfied to describe him as a " responsible well ...
... mind and unassuming in the world's conceit , would have eschewed as a vain assumption , with the same heartiness that he would have shunned a crime . His earliest Editor * was satisfied to describe him as a " responsible well ...
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... mind of no ordinary character , that at so early a period of his life he should have been in intimate friendship with men of such mark as it is known were his associates . With Dr. Mor- ley , bishop of Winchester , he , at a later ...
... mind of no ordinary character , that at so early a period of his life he should have been in intimate friendship with men of such mark as it is known were his associates . With Dr. Mor- ley , bishop of Winchester , he , at a later ...
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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.