The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative NotesJohn Major, 1824 - 416 páginas |
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... page of the first edition of his portion of the work , and has been continued in all those since published . This part of our history will be fully illustrated by the following short epistles which passed on the occasion ; and the ...
... page of the first edition of his portion of the work , and has been continued in all those since published . This part of our history will be fully illustrated by the following short epistles which passed on the occasion ; and the ...
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... pages of honest Izaak Walton . I recollect studying his ' Complete Angler , ' several years since , in company with a knot of friends in America , and moreover that we were all completely bitten with the angling mania . It was early in ...
... pages of honest Izaak Walton . I recollect studying his ' Complete Angler , ' several years since , in company with a knot of friends in America , and moreover that we were all completely bitten with the angling mania . It was early in ...
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... pages . We have conse- quently spared no effort to illustrate the literary and rural beauties of the work : our numerous topographical views , with those other subjects which have been suggested to the various artists as the result of a ...
... pages . We have conse- quently spared no effort to illustrate the literary and rural beauties of the work : our numerous topographical views , with those other subjects which have been suggested to the various artists as the result of a ...
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... page with the text , we have most zealously endeavoured to render them worthy of a distinct perusal . The frequent occurrence of eminent names throughout the work , naturally leads us to reflect that the chief argument used by Walton in ...
... page with the text , we have most zealously endeavoured to render them worthy of a distinct perusal . The frequent occurrence of eminent names throughout the work , naturally leads us to reflect that the chief argument used by Walton in ...
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... PAGE iii . Introductory Essay , Head - piece : Portraits and Arms of Dr. John Donne , George Herbert , Dr. Robert Sander- son Bishop of Lincoln , Richard Hooker , and Sir Henry Wotton ; whose Lives were written by Walton . Drawn by ...
... PAGE iii . Introductory Essay , Head - piece : Portraits and Arms of Dr. John Donne , George Herbert , Dr. Robert Sander- son Bishop of Lincoln , Richard Hooker , and Sir Henry Wotton ; whose Lives were written by Walton . Drawn by ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 78 - 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 79 - 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 42 - This day dame Nature seem'd in love ; The lusty sap began to move ; Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines ; And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a...
Página 79 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 114 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, 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. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 43 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest; The groves already did rejoice, In Philomel's triumphing voice; The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled. Joan takes her neat-rubbed pail, and now She trips to milk the sand-red cow ; Where for some sturdy foot-ball swain Joan strokes a syllabub or twain; The fields and gardens were beset With tulips, crocus, violet; And now, though late, the modest rose Did more than half a blush disclose. Thus all looks gay and full of...
Página 215 - Calls my fleeting soul away : Oh ! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace, Chloris ! peace, or singing die, That together you and I To heaven may go ; For all we know Of what the blessed do above, Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Página 43 - Let me live harmlessly ; and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of perch, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness.
Página 118 - And raise my low-pitched thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits, and the noise Of princes
Página 118 - I IN these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice. Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love; Or on that bank, feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty; please my mind. To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers. And then...