The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingL.A. Lewis, 1839 - 396 páginas |
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... Trout , and some of the other fish ; which I may take a liberty to com- mend , because they concern not myself . Next , let me tell the reader , that in that which is the more useful part of this Discourse , that is to say , the ob ...
... Trout , and some of the other fish ; which I may take a liberty to com- mend , because they concern not myself . Next , let me tell the reader , that in that which is the more useful part of this Discourse , that is to say , the ob ...
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... Trout , the Angler must observe his twelve several flies for the twelve months of the year ; I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack ...
... Trout , the Angler must observe his twelve several flies for the twelve months of the year ; I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack ...
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... Trout in most rivers all the sum- mer . And for winter fly - fishing , it is as useful as an almanack out of date . And of these , because as no man is born an artist , so no man is born an Angler , I thought fit to give thee this ...
... Trout in most rivers all the sum- mer . And for winter fly - fishing , it is as useful as an almanack out of date . And of these , because as no man is born an artist , so no man is born an Angler , I thought fit to give thee this ...
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... Trout . When you these creatures wisely choose To practise on , which to your use Owe their creation , and when Fish from your arts do rescue men , To plot , delude , and circumvent , Ensnare , and spoil , is innocent . Here by these ...
... Trout . When you these creatures wisely choose To practise on , which to your use Owe their creation , and when Fish from your arts do rescue men , To plot , delude , and circumvent , Ensnare , and spoil , is innocent . Here by these ...
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... Trout , or Perch , or Pike ; and having done , Sits on a bank , and tells how this was won , And that escaped his hook , which with a wile Did eat the bait , and fisherman beguile . Thus whilst some vex'd they from their lands are ...
... Trout , or Perch , or Pike ; and having done , Sits on a bank , and tells how this was won , And that escaped his hook , which with a wile Did eat the bait , and fisherman beguile . Thus whilst some vex'd they from their lands are ...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1833 |
The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Página 84 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 54 - Fair lined slippers 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 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Página 50 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet has happily expressed it, " I was for that time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised...
Página xxix - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a...
Página 208 - The diligent hand ma'keth rich ;" and it is true indeed : but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy ; for it was wisely said, by a man of great observation, " That there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side them.
Página 180 - Calls my fleeting soul away : 0 suppress that magic sound, 'Which destroys without a wound ! Peace, Chloris, peace, or singing die, That together you and I To heaven may go ; For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is — that they sing, and that they love.
Página 54 - 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 23 - Nature seem'd in love ; The lusty sap began to move ; Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines ; And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly ; There stood my Friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill.
Página 91 - I IN these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice, Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love; Or on that bank, feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty; please my mind, To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers, And then...