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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... treatise that might have proved worthy his perusal , which , though some have undertaken , I could never yet see in English . But mine may be thought as weak , and as un- worthy of common view ; and I do here freely THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
... treatise that might have proved worthy his perusal , which , though some have undertaken , I could never yet see in English . But mine may be thought as weak , and as un- worthy of common view ; and I do here freely THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY .
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... view ; and I do here freely con- fess , that I should rather excuse myself , than censure others , my own discourse being liable to so many ex- ceptions ; against which , you , Sir , might make this one , -that it can contribute nothing ...
... view ; and I do here freely con- fess , that I should rather excuse myself , than censure others , my own discourse being liable to so many ex- ceptions ; against which , you , Sir , might make this one , -that it can contribute nothing ...
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... view and censure : I wish him as much in the perusal of it , and so I might here take my leave , but will stay a little and tell him , that whereas it is said by many , that in Fly - fishing for a Trout , the Angler must observe his ...
... view and censure : I wish him as much in the perusal of it , and so I might here take my leave , but will stay a little and tell him , that whereas it is said by many , that in Fly - fishing for a Trout , the Angler must observe his ...
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... views it with judicious looks , Shall find it full of art , baits , lines , and hooks . The world the river is ; both you and I , And all mankind , are either fish or fry . If we pretend to reason , first or last , His baits will tempt ...
... views it with judicious looks , Shall find it full of art , baits , lines , and hooks . The world the river is ; both you and I , And all mankind , are either fish or fry . If we pretend to reason , first or last , His baits will tempt ...
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... View of Madely Manor - house , Staffordshire ; the Seat of John Offley , Esq . , to whom the Epistle is addressed . Drawn and Engraved by T. Mosses , from the plate , by M. Burghers , contained in Dr. Plot's Natural History of ...
... View of Madely Manor - house , Staffordshire ; the Seat of John Offley , Esq . , to whom the Epistle is addressed . Drawn and Engraved by T. Mosses , from the plate , by M. Burghers , contained in Dr. Plot's Natural History of ...
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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 Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1839 |
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Página 75 - Thy silver dishes for thy meat As precious as the gods do eat, Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning : If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my Love.
Página 10 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Página 74 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Página 112 - 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 108 - 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 111 - And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits and the noise Of princes' Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook...
Página 246 - Go ! let the diving negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek ; We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass ; And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears.
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 76 - ... 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.
Página 255 - FAREWELL, thou busy world ! and may We never meet again : Here I can eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more good in one short day, Than he, who his whole age out-wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears.