The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. With a new intr. and notes [by H.K.S. Causton].1851 |
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... feathers , " but to have extended to its " reclaiming , dieting , and practice ; " the mews being the nursery of its early training and the home of its reclaimed habits . The King's mews , near the cross , at Charing , on the site of ...
... feathers , " but to have extended to its " reclaiming , dieting , and practice ; " the mews being the nursery of its early training and the home of its reclaimed habits . The King's mews , near the cross , at Charing , on the site of ...
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... feathers : their reclaiming , dieting , and then come to their rare stories of practice ; I say , if I should enter into these , and many other observations that I could make , it would be much , very much pleasure to me ; but lest I ...
... feathers : their reclaiming , dieting , and then come to their rare stories of practice ; I say , if I should enter into these , and many other observations that I could make , it would be much , very much pleasure to me ; but lest I ...
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... feathers , and of the feathers under his tail . The third is the Stone - fly , in April ; the body is made of black wool , made yellow under the wings and under the tail , and so made with the wings of the drake . The fourth is the ...
... feathers , and of the feathers under his tail . The third is the Stone - fly , in April ; the body is made of black wool , made yellow under the wings and under the tail , and so made with the wings of the drake . The fourth is the ...
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... feathers of the drake or of the buzzard . The eleventh is the Shell - fly , good in mid - July ; the body made of greenish wool , lapped about with the herl of a pea- cock's tail ; and the wings made of the wings of the buzzard . The ...
... feathers of the drake or of the buzzard . The eleventh is the Shell - fly , good in mid - July ; the body made of greenish wool , lapped about with the herl of a pea- cock's tail ; and the wings made of the wings of the buzzard . The ...
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... feather as in your own reason will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook ; then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the shank ...
... feather as in your own reason will make the wings of it , you having withal regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook ; then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the shank ...
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Страница 110 - 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.
Страница 109 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Страница 147 - 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.
Страница 292 - He that loses his conscience, has nothing left that is worth keeping:" therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health : and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience ; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, — a blessing that money cannot buy ; and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Страница 108 - A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Страница 110 - But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love.
Страница 46 - I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Страница 242 - tis beloved by many: Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping: Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping: Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure.
Страница 114 - I'll promise you I'll sing a song that was lately made at my request by Mr. William Basse, one that hath made the choice songs of the
Страница lviii - And I am the willinger to justify the pleasant part of it, because though it is known I can be serious at seasonable times, yet the whole Discourse is, or rather was, a picture of my own disposition, especially in such days and times as I have laid aside business, and gone a fishing with honest Nat. and R. Roe ; but they are gone, and with them most of my pleasant hours, even as a shadow that passeth away and returns not.