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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... worm provokes a snig , Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd . The Tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook : Which , having first your ...
... worm provokes a snig , Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd . The Tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook : Which , having first your ...
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... worm , and in hot weather makes excellent sport for young Anglers , or boys . " p . 220 . 49. Tail - piece Portrait of Michael Drayton , surrounded by the Genii of the Rivers mentioned in his Sonnet on page 226 . Drawn by W. H. Brooke ...
... worm , and in hot weather makes excellent sport for young Anglers , or boys . " p . 220 . 49. Tail - piece Portrait of Michael Drayton , surrounded by the Genii of the Rivers mentioned in his Sonnet on page 226 . Drawn by W. H. Brooke ...
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... Worms , and of the Fly into which they sub- sequently change . Drawn and Engraved by G. W. Bonner . Page 378 . 72. Portrait of Thomas Coriate the Traveller , from the Frontis- piece to his " Crudities , " Lond . 1611. 4to . Copied and ...
... Worms , and of the Fly into which they sub- sequently change . Drawn and Engraved by G. W. Bonner . Page 378 . 72. Portrait of Thomas Coriate the Traveller , from the Frontis- piece to his " Crudities , " Lond . 1611. 4to . Copied and ...
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... worm is so sure a bait at all times that , excepting in a flood , I would I had laid a thousand pounds that I did not kill fish , more or less , with it , winter or summer , every day in the year ; those days always excepted that upon a ...
... worm is so sure a bait at all times that , excepting in a flood , I would I had laid a thousand pounds that I did not kill fish , more or less , with it , winter or summer , every day in the year ; those days always excepted that upon a ...
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... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm , or a case - worm , any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a Trout in a hot evening : when , as you walk by a brook , and ...
... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm , or a case - worm , any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a Trout in a hot evening : when , as you walk by a brook , and ...
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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.