The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's RecreationD. Bogue, ... H. Wix, 1844 - 418 páginas |
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... , and was the progenitor of the present Lord Crewe . The family is connected by marriages with the noble houses of Hastings , Powis and Wilton . b learned angler had seen some better treatise of this art INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . xvii.
... , and was the progenitor of the present Lord Crewe . The family is connected by marriages with the noble houses of Hastings , Powis and Wilton . b learned angler had seen some better treatise of this art INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . xvii.
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... better treatise of this art , a treatise that might have proved worthy his perusal , which , though some have undertaken , I could never yet see in English . " Here again our modest author finds an excuse for the undertaking of a work ...
... better treatise of this art , a treatise that might have proved worthy his perusal , which , though some have undertaken , I could never yet see in English . " Here again our modest author finds an excuse for the undertaking of a work ...
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... better and more general rules for all sorts of Angling : and , though mine be neither so perfect , so well digested , nor indeed so handsomely couched , as they might have been , in so long a time as since your leave was granted ; yet I ...
... better and more general rules for all sorts of Angling : and , though mine be neither so perfect , so well digested , nor indeed so handsomely couched , as they might have been , in so long a time as since your leave was granted ; yet I ...
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... better judgment , or kindness rather , can allow it passable , for a thing of this nature , you will then do me honour , if the Cypher , fixed and carved in the front of my little fishing - house , may be here explained : and to per ...
... better judgment , or kindness rather , can allow it passable , for a thing of this nature , you will then do me honour , if the Cypher , fixed and carved in the front of my little fishing - house , may be here explained : and to per ...
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... better . I confess , that for doing this you may justly judge me too bold : if you do , I will say so too ; and so far com- mute for my offence , that , though I be more than a hundred miles from you , and in the eighty - third year of ...
... better . I confess , that for doing this you may justly judge me too bold : if you do , I will say so too ; and so far com- mute for my offence , that , though I be more than a hundred miles from you , and in the eighty - third year of ...
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The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1847 |
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Página 78 - 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 lviii - And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of a recreation ; and that it might prove so to him, and not read dull and tediously, I have in several places mixed, not any 'scurrility, but some innocent, harmless mirth, of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge ; for divines say, there are offencei given, and offences not given but taken.
Página 120 - 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 115 - 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 44 - 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 pike, 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, or wantonness.
Página 81 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Página 216 - 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 262 - I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in Him.
Página 118 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Página 213 - His bed, more safe than soft, yields quiet sleeps, While by his side his faithful spouse hath place ; His little son into his bosom creeps, The lively picture of his father's face...