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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... four flies neat and rightly made , and not too big , serve for a 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 And for winter fly - fishing , it is as useful as an almanack out of date .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 ...
... four flies neat and rightly made , and not too big , serve for a 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 And for winter fly - fishing , it is as useful as an almanack out of date .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 ...
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... four of the Authors quoted on p . 179 , on the subject of the Natural History of Eels . The portraits are connected by a wreath of Water - flags and Bulrushes , surrounding Eels , Eel - spears , Wears , & c . Drawn by W. H. Brooke ...
... four of the Authors quoted on p . 179 , on the subject of the Natural History of Eels . The portraits are connected by a wreath of Water - flags and Bulrushes , surrounding Eels , Eel - spears , Wears , & c . Drawn by W. H. Brooke ...
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... Hist . of Herts , vol . ii . p . 5. There are four inscrip- tions , both in Latin and English , upon this stone , and also the fol- lowing verses : " Amwell , perpetual be thy stream , Nor e'er LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS .
... Hist . of Herts , vol . ii . p . 5. There are four inscrip- tions , both in Latin and English , upon this stone , and also the fol- lowing verses : " Amwell , perpetual be thy stream , Nor e'er LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS .
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... four latest , some mention is made in the margin ; but the first of that number , as well on account of its quaintness as antiquity , and because it is not a little characteristic of the age when it was written , deserves to be ...
... four latest , some mention is made in the margin ; but the first of that number , as well on account of its quaintness as antiquity , and because it is not a little characteristic of the age when it was written , deserves to be ...
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... four editions , -Walton , in the year 1676 , and in the eighty - third of his age , was pre- paring a fifth , with additions , for the press ; when Mr. Cotton wrote a second part of that work . It seems Mr. Cotton submitted the ...
... four editions , -Walton , in the year 1676 , and in the eighty - third of his age , was pre- paring a fifth , with additions , for the press ; when Mr. Cotton wrote a second part of that work . It seems Mr. Cotton submitted the ...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1833 |
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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.