The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing. With Notes Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the AuthorsHenry Washbourne, 1842 - 396 páginas |
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... feathers , and other materials in all which researches he exercised such patience , industry , and ingenuity , and succeeded so well , that having , in the fol- lowing dialogues , communicated to the public the result of his experience ...
... feathers , and other materials in all which researches he exercised such patience , industry , and ingenuity , and succeeded so well , that having , in the fol- lowing dialogues , communicated to the public the result of his experience ...
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... feathers ; their reclaiming , dieting , and then come to their rare stories of practice ; I say , if I should enter into these , and many other observations that I could make , it would be much , very much pleasure to me : but lest I ...
... feathers ; their reclaiming , dieting , and then come to their rare stories of practice ; I say , if I should enter into these , and many other observations that I could make , it would be much , very much pleasure to me : but lest I ...
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... feathers , and of the feathers under his tail . The third is the stone - fly , in April ; the body is made of black wool , made yellow under the wings , and under the tail , and so made with wings of the drake . The fourth is the ruddy ...
... feathers , and of the feathers under his tail . The third is the stone - fly , in April ; the body is made of black wool , made yellow under the wings , and under the tail , and so made with wings of the drake . The fourth is the ruddy ...
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... feathers in his head . The seventh is the sad - yellow - fly , in June ; the body is made of black wool , with a yellow list on either side , and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard , bound with black braked hemp . The eighth is ...
... feathers in his head . The seventh is the sad - yellow - fly , in June ; the body is made of black wool , with a yellow list on either side , and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard , bound with black braked hemp . The eighth is ...
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... feather as , in your own reason , will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook ; then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the ...
... feather as , in your own reason , will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook ; then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Angler art of Angling artificial fly bait Barbel belly better betwixt bishop bite body bred breed brown called Carp catch caught Charles Cotton Chub church colour Complete Angler Copied and Engraved Cotton Derbyshire discourse doth doubtless Drawn and Engraved dubbing earth Engraved by H excellent feed fish flies frog Gesner give Grayling green-drake hackle hair hath head honest hook IZAAK WALTON kind learned let me tell live look Lord mallard master meat Michael Drayton minnow month morning moss never observed Otter Pike PISC PISCATOR pleasure pond recreation river river Dove river Wye Roach Salmon scholar season silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport Staffordshire stream sweet tail Tail-piece taken told Trout usually verses VIAT warp wings worm yellow
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Página 106 - 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.
Página 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Página xxxi - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book, or friend; - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 110 - 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 72 - I know it now, I learned the first part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world began to take hold of me : but you shall, God willing, hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin, sing the first part to the gentlemen with a merry heart, and I'll sing the second when you have done. " THE MILK-MAID'S SONG. Come live with me, and...
Página 74 - With coral clasps and amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Página 241 - 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 xxxi - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Página 245 - Farewell, ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow echo ; Gold, pure clay ; Honour the darling but of one short day...
Página 74 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 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.