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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... appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire , namely Severn , Wye , and Usk , where Camden ( Brit . f . 633 ) ob- serves , that in the river Wye , Salmon are in season from September to April ; and we are certain , that in Thames , and ...
... appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire , namely Severn , Wye , and Usk , where Camden ( Brit . f . 633 ) ob- serves , that in the river Wye , Salmon are in season from September to April ; and we are certain , that in Thames , and ...
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... appear about , and on the water in one month of the year , may the following year come almost a month sooner or later , as the same year proves colder or hotter : and yet , in the following Discourse , I have set down the twelve flies ...
... appear about , and on the water in one month of the year , may the following year come almost a month sooner or later , as the same year proves colder or hotter : and yet , in the following Discourse , I have set down the twelve flies ...
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... appears the house , that is now like to be your Inn , for want of a better ..... It stands prettily , and here's wood about it , too , but so young as appears to be of your own planting . " p . 277 . 60. Tail - piece : The Rocks called ...
... appears the house , that is now like to be your Inn , for want of a better ..... It stands prettily , and here's wood about it , too , but so young as appears to be of your own planting . " p . 277 . 60. Tail - piece : The Rocks called ...
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... appears on the left , behind the two female figures . Etched by J. T. Smith , Esq . , Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum , from an Original Draw- ing by Himself , taken on the spot in May , 1794. Com- municated by H ...
... appears on the left , behind the two female figures . Etched by J. T. Smith , Esq . , Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum , from an Original Draw- ing by Himself , taken on the spot in May , 1794. Com- municated by H ...
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... appears from the parish register of St. Mary , Stafford , September the 21st , 1593. His father , Jervis Walton , died in February 1596 , when Isaac was little more than two years old . + Athen . Oxon . vol . i . 305 . Ward's Life of ...
... appears from the parish register of St. Mary , Stafford , September the 21st , 1593. His father , Jervis Walton , died in February 1596 , when Isaac was little more than two years old . + Athen . Oxon . vol . i . 305 . Ward's Life 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.