The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingFraser, 1836 - 328 páginas |
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... turn of thinking , and manner of writing , have adorned , and even dignified , themes the most dry and unpromising . Many would think that time ill employed which was spent in composing a treatise on the art of shooting in the long bow ...
... turn of thinking , and manner of writing , have adorned , and even dignified , themes the most dry and unpromising . Many would think that time ill employed which was spent in composing a treatise on the art of shooting in the long bow ...
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... turn the whole of it into ridicule . * -- Walton was now in his eighty - third year , an age which , to use his own words , " might have procured him a writ of ease , t and secured him from all farther trouble in that kind ; " when he ...
... turn the whole of it into ridicule . * -- Walton was now in his eighty - third year , an age which , to use his own words , " might have procured him a writ of ease , t and secured him from all farther trouble in that kind ; " when he ...
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... turning sad ; Hence fetch your cure , cast in your bait , All anxious thoughts and cares will straight Fly with such speed , they'll seem to be Possess'd with the hydrophobie : The water's calmness in your breast , And smoothness on ...
... turning sad ; Hence fetch your cure , cast in your bait , All anxious thoughts and cares will straight Fly with such speed , they'll seem to be Possess'd with the hydrophobie : The water's calmness in your breast , And smoothness on ...
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... turn up to a friend's house , who mews † a hawk for me , which I now long to see . Venator . Sir , we are all so happy as to have a fine , fresh , cool morning ; and I hope we shall each be the happier in the * Theobald's , in the ...
... turn up to a friend's house , who mews † a hawk for me , which I now long to see . Venator . Sir , we are all so happy as to have a fine , fresh , cool morning ; and I hope we shall each be the happier in the * Theobald's , in the ...
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... turns to putrefaction . Nay , more , the very birds of the air , those that be not hawks , are both so many , and so useful and pleasant to mankind , that I must not let them pass without some observations : they both feed and refresh ...
... turns to putrefaction . Nay , more , the very birds of the air , those that be not hawks , are both so many , and so useful and pleasant to mankind , that I must not let them pass without some observations : they both feed and refresh ...
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