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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Página 51
... night ; for at Trout - Hall , not far from this place , where I purpose to lodge to - night , there is usually an Angler that proves good company . And let me tell you , good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue ...
... night ; for at Trout - Hall , not far from this place , where I purpose to lodge to - night , there is usually an Angler that proves good company . And let me tell you , good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue ...
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... night , and bring a friend with him . My hostess has two beds , and I know you and I may have the best : we'll rejoice with my brother Peter and his friend , tell tales , or sing ballads , or make a catch , or find some harmless sport ...
... night , and bring a friend with him . My hostess has two beds , and I know you and I may have the best : we'll rejoice with my brother Peter and his friend , tell tales , or sing ballads , or make a catch , or find some harmless sport ...
Página 75
... night and without doubt , honest , innocent , pretty Maudlin does so . I'll bestow Sir Thomas Over- bury's Milk - maid's wish upon her , " That she may die in the spring , and being dead , may have good store of flowers stuck around ...
... night and without doubt , honest , innocent , pretty Maudlin does so . I'll bestow Sir Thomas Over- bury's Milk - maid's wish upon her , " That she may die in the spring , and being dead , may have good store of flowers stuck around ...
Página 76
... night , when young Coridon the shep- herd played so purely on his oaten pipe to you and your Cousin Betty . MAUD . 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 ...
... night , when young Coridon the shep- herd played so purely on his oaten pipe to you and your Cousin Betty . MAUD . 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 ...
Página 78
... night , and that hath made me to bring my friend to lodge here too . My friend is one that would fain be a brother of the Angle ; he hath been an Angler but this day , and I have taught him how to catch a Chub by daping with a grass ...
... night , and that hath made me to bring my friend to lodge here too . My friend is one that would fain be a brother of the Angle ; he hath been an Angler but this day , and I have taught him how to catch a Chub by daping with a grass ...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1833 |
The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on ... Izaak Walton,Charles Cotton Visualização integral - 1839 |
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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.