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 77
... thank you . PISC . Well sung , good woman : I'll give you another dish of fish one of these days , and then beg another song of you . Come , scholar , let Maudlin alone ; do not you offer to spoil her voice . Look ! yonder comes mine ...
... thank you . PISC . Well sung , good woman : I'll give you another dish of fish one of these days , and then beg another song of you . Come , scholar , let Maudlin alone ; do not you offer to spoil her voice . Look ! yonder comes mine ...
Página 79
... thank you , and here is a hearty draught to you , and to all the brothers of the Angle where- soever they be , and to my young brother's good for- tune to - morrow . I will furnish him with a rod , if you will furnish him with the rest ...
... thank you , and here is a hearty draught to you , and to all the brothers of the Angle where- soever they be , and to my young brother's good for- tune to - morrow . I will furnish him with a rod , if you will furnish him with the rest ...
Página 80
... thank you for it , and so doth my friend Peter , or else he is to blame . PET . Yes , and so I do ; we all thank you , and when we have supped , I will get my friend Coridon to sing you a song for requital . COR . I will sing a song ...
... thank you for it , and so doth my friend Peter , or else he is to blame . PET . Yes , and so I do ; we all thank you , and when we have supped , I will get my friend Coridon to sing you a song for requital . COR . I will sing a song ...
Página 83
... thank you for it . : But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I owe you , and therefore I will begin my song , and wish it may be so well liked . THE ANGLER'S SONG . As inward love breeds outward talk CHAP . V. ] 83 THE ...
... thank you for it . : But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I owe you , and therefore I will begin my song , and wish it may be so well liked . THE ANGLER'S SONG . As inward love breeds outward talk CHAP . V. ] 83 THE ...
Página 90
... thank me for it ; for you will run on the ground without ' tangling . Now for the Minnow , or Penk ; he is not easily found and caught till March , or in April , for then he ap- pears first in the river ; nature having taught him to ...
... thank me for it ; for you will run on the ground without ' tangling . Now for the Minnow , or Penk ; he is not easily found and caught till March , or in April , for then he ap- pears first in the river ; nature having taught him to ...
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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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Palavras e frases frequentes
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.