The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingT. Tegg & Son, 1835 - 328 páginas |
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... sung last night , when more . - Sir Thomas Overbury's character of a fayre and happy milkmaid , printed with his poem , entitled The Wife , in 12mo . 1655 . THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 89 young Coridon the Shepherd played 88 ...
... sung last night , when more . - Sir Thomas Overbury's character of a fayre and happy milkmaid , printed with his poem , entitled The Wife , in 12mo . 1655 . THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 89 young Coridon the Shepherd played 88 ...
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... Coridon the Shepherd played so purely on his oaten pipe to you and your cousin Betty . Maudlin . I will , mother . I married a wife of late , The more's my unhappy fate ; I married her for love , As my fancy did me move , And not for a ...
... Coridon the Shepherd played so purely on his oaten pipe to you and your cousin Betty . Maudlin . I will , mother . I married a wife of late , The more's my unhappy fate ; I married her for love , As my fancy did me move , And not for a ...
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... Coridon , this Trout looks lovely ; it was twenty - two inches when it was taken ; and the belly of it looked some part of it as yellow as a marigold , and part of it as white as a lily ; and yet , methinks , it looks better in this ...
... Coridon , this Trout looks lovely ; it was twenty - two inches when it was taken ; and the belly of it looked some part of it as yellow as a marigold , and part of it as white as a lily ; and yet , methinks , it looks better in this ...
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... Coridon to sing you a song for requital . Coridon . I will sing a song , if any body will sing another : else , to be plain with you , I will sing none . I am none of those that sing for meat , but for company : I say , " ' Tis merry in ...
... Coridon to sing you a song for requital . Coridon . I will sing a song , if any body will sing another : else , to be plain with you , I will sing none . I am none of those that sing for meat , but for company : I say , " ' Tis merry in ...
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... Jo . CHALKHILL . * John Chalkhill , Esq . of whom mention is made in the author's Life . Mr Singer , in reprinting the elegant poem of Thealma and Clearchus , threw Piscator . Well sung , Coridon ! this song was 92 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... Jo . CHALKHILL . * John Chalkhill , Esq . of whom mention is made in the author's Life . Mr Singer , in reprinting the elegant poem of Thealma and Clearchus , threw Piscator . Well sung , Coridon ! this song was 92 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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Página 110 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. 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...
Página 86 - 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 111 - 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 84 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago. And the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were oldfashioned poetry, but choicely good; I think much better than the strong lines which are now in fashion in this critical age.
Página 54 - I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice: but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Página 232 - Dear Solitude, the soul's best friend, That man acquainted with himself dost make, And all his Maker's wonders to intend. With thee I here converse at will, And would be -glad to do so still, For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake.
Página 85 - Slippers, lined choicely for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw, and ivy buds, With coral clasps, and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Página 58 - Wherefore, most sacred Spirit, I here present For me and all my fellows praise to Thee : And just it is that I should pay the rent, Because the benefit accrues to me.
Página 83 - I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing. And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill.
Página 85 - A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy-buds With coral clasps and amber studs — And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.