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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... Pisc . Well now , Mr. Venator , you shall neither want time nor my attention to hear you enlarge your discourse concerning Hunting . VEN . Not I , Sir ; I remember you said that Ang- ling itself was of great antiquity , and a perfect ...
... Pisc . Well now , Mr. Venator , you shall neither want time nor my attention to hear you enlarge your discourse concerning Hunting . VEN . Not I , Sir ; I remember you said that Ang- ling itself was of great antiquity , and a perfect ...
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... PISC . O , Sir , doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with an artificial fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than any Hawk you have named , and more watchful and timo- rous than your high ...
... PISC . O , Sir , doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with an artificial fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than any Hawk you have named , and more watchful and timo- rous than your high ...
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... of this house , till you shewed it to me : but now we are at it , we'll turn into it , and refresh ourselves with a cup of drink and a little rest . ' PISC . Most gladly , Sir , and we'll CHAP . I. ] 333 THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 43.
... of this house , till you shewed it to me : but now we are at it , we'll turn into it , and refresh ourselves with a cup of drink and a little rest . ' PISC . Most gladly , Sir , and we'll CHAP . I. ] 333 THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 43.
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... PISC . Most gladly , Sir , and we'll drink a civil cup to all the Otter - hunters that are to meet you to - morrow . VEN . That we will , Sir , and to all the lovers of Angling too , of which number I am now willing to be one myself ...
... PISC . Most gladly , Sir , and we'll drink a civil cup to all the Otter - hunters that are to meet you to - morrow . VEN . That we will , Sir , and to all the lovers of Angling too , of which number I am now willing to be one myself ...
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... PISC . Sir , I am right glad to meet you , and glad to have so fair an entrance into this day's sport , and glad to see so many dogs , and more men , all in pursuit of the Otter : let's compliment no longer , but join unto them . Come ...
... PISC . Sir , I am right glad to meet you , and glad to have so fair an entrance into this day's sport , and glad to see so many dogs , and more men , all in pursuit of the Otter : let's compliment no longer , but join unto them . Come ...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Angler art of Angling artificial fly bait Barbel belly better betwixt bishop bite body bred breed brown called Carp catch caught Charles Cotton Chub church colour Complete Angler Copied and Engraved Cotton Derbyshire discourse doth doubtless dubbing earth Engraved by H excellent feed fish flies frog Gesner give Grayling green-drake hackle hair hath head honest hook Izaak IZAAK WALTON kind learned let me tell live look Lord mallard master meat Michael Drayton minnow month morning moss never observed Otter Pike PISC PISCATOR pleasure pond recreation river river Dove river Wye Roach Salmon scholar season shew silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport Staffordshire stream sweet tail Tail-piece taken told Trout usually verses VIAT Walton warp wings worm yellow
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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.