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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... HONEST ANGLER . I THINK fit to tell thee these following truths , that I did neither undertake , nor write , nor publish , and much less own , this Discourse to please myself ; and having been too easily drawn to do all to please others ...
... HONEST ANGLER . I THINK fit to tell thee these following truths , that I did neither undertake , nor write , nor publish , and much less own , this Discourse to please myself ; and having been too easily drawn to do all to please others ...
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... than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following Discourse ; and that , if he be an honest Angler , the east wind may never blow when he goes a - fishing . I. W. TO MY DEAR BROTHER , MR . IZAAK WALTON ,. WALTON TO THE READER .
... than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following Discourse ; and that , if he be an honest Angler , the east wind may never blow when he goes a - fishing . I. W. TO MY DEAR BROTHER , MR . IZAAK WALTON ,. WALTON TO THE READER .
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... honest man , a very pretty Church ! " p . 276 . 58. Tail - piece : The Fishing - House , erected by Cotton on the banks of the Dove ; from an Original Drawing by W. Blake , Esq . Copied and Engraved by H. White . Page 285 . 59. Tail ...
... honest man , a very pretty Church ! " p . 276 . 58. Tail - piece : The Fishing - House , erected by Cotton on the banks of the Dove ; from an Original Drawing by W. Blake , Esq . Copied and Engraved by H. White . Page 285 . 59. Tail ...
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... honest men to be there , he left that city , and lived some- times at Stafford , † and elsewhere ; but mostly in the fami- lies of the eminent clergymen of England , of whom he was much beloved . ‡ While he continued in London , his ...
... honest men to be there , he left that city , and lived some- times at Stafford , † and elsewhere ; but mostly in the fami- lies of the eminent clergymen of England , of whom he was much beloved . ‡ While he continued in London , his ...
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... honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats , to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you to deliver to your mother ; and tell her , I ...
... honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats , to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you to deliver to your mother ; and tell her , I ...
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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.