The river Dove; with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of angling [signed J.L.A.].1845 - 241 страници |
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... Angler and a Painter . PAINTER . -Welcome , Mr. Gentleman Angler : welcome to Derby . ANGLER . - Good morrow , brother , I am glad to see you look so cheering and courteous ; for I must confess I am later than our fix't ap- pointment ...
... Angler and a Painter . PAINTER . -Welcome , Mr. Gentleman Angler : welcome to Derby . ANGLER . - Good morrow , brother , I am glad to see you look so cheering and courteous ; for I must confess I am later than our fix't ap- pointment ...
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John Lavicount Anderdon. ANGLER . You may trust me . keenly set as a moss trooper . I am as PAINTER . - I am glad to hear it , for I have told the civil hostess to treat us well . ANGLER . - You are worthy to be a brother of the angle ...
John Lavicount Anderdon. ANGLER . You may trust me . keenly set as a moss trooper . I am as PAINTER . - I am glad to hear it , for I have told the civil hostess to treat us well . ANGLER . - You are worthy to be a brother of the angle ...
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... ANGLER . - Not so , brother ; for you are to note every angler must needs be blest with a hopeful and patient disposition , since he may sometimes look to come home as he went forth , that is to say , with an empty pannier- PAINTER . As ...
... ANGLER . - Not so , brother ; for you are to note every angler must needs be blest with a hopeful and patient disposition , since he may sometimes look to come home as he went forth , that is to say , with an empty pannier- PAINTER . As ...
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... anglers that wait so meekly for their fortunes , as to seem fixed wth all the gravity of sculptured images on the margin of their streams . ANGLER . SO , so ! good brother , you may smile and wonder too ; nay , I will laugh with you ...
... anglers that wait so meekly for their fortunes , as to seem fixed wth all the gravity of sculptured images on the margin of their streams . ANGLER . SO , so ! good brother , you may smile and wonder too ; nay , I will laugh with you ...
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... ANGLER . That would I willingly , if time might serve ; but we are come within sight of Brailsford . - PAINTER . Then make me this promise , that we may beguile some future hours together by those lower passages of the Dove , and see ...
... ANGLER . That would I willingly , if time might serve ; but we are come within sight of Brailsford . - PAINTER . Then make me this promise , that we may beguile some future hours together by those lower passages of the Dove , and see ...
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Страница 227 - 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 ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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