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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... season from September to April ; and we are certain , that in Thames , and Trent , and in most other rivers , they be in season the six hotter months . Now for the art of catching fish , that is to say , how to make a man that was none ...
... season from September to April ; and we are certain , that in Thames , and Trent , and in most other rivers , they be in season the six hotter months . Now for the art of catching fish , that is to say , how to make a man that was none ...
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... season , take a a fayr yerde of grene hasyll , and bethe hym euen and streyghte , and lete it drye with the staffe ; and whan they ben drye , make the yerde mete unto the hole in the staffe unto halfe the length of the staffe ; and to ...
... season , take a a fayr yerde of grene hasyll , and bethe hym euen and streyghte , and lete it drye with the staffe ; and whan they ben drye , make the yerde mete unto the hole in the staffe unto halfe the length of the staffe ; and to ...
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... season , or the Taber- nacle of old at the feast of boughs ? " — " That was but for a season , " said Walton : " in your feast of boughs , they may conceive , we are so overshadowed throughout , that the parson is more seen than his ...
... season , or the Taber- nacle of old at the feast of boughs ? " — " That was but for a season , " said Walton : " in your feast of boughs , they may conceive , we are so overshadowed throughout , that the parson is more seen than his ...
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... seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can perform it , to furnish any lord's table only with Trouts , as it is ...
... seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can perform it , to furnish any lord's table only with Trouts , as it is ...
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... season of Lent , the Ember weeks , Fridays , and the Vigils of Saints , they observed strictly ; exercising absti- nence and prayer . Mr. Farrar himself , who had been admitted to deacon's orders , took upon him to be pastor of this ...
... season of Lent , the Ember weeks , Fridays , and the Vigils of Saints , they observed strictly ; exercising absti- nence and prayer . Mr. Farrar himself , who had been admitted to deacon's orders , took upon him to be pastor of this ...
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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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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 dubbing earth Engraved by H excellent feed fish flies frog Gesner give Grayling green-drake hackle hair hath head honest hook Izaak 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 shew silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport Staffordshire stream sweet tail Tail-piece taken told Trout usually verses VIAT Walton warp wings worm yellow
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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.