The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingL.A. Lewis, 1839 - 396 страници |
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... brown capon , with his blue feathers in his head . The seventh is the sad - yellow - fly , in June ; the body is made of black wool , with a yellow list on either side , and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard , bound with black ...
... brown capon , with his blue feathers in his head . The seventh is the sad - yellow - fly , in June ; the body is made of black wool , with a yellow list on either side , and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard , bound with black ...
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... brown mallard's 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 ...
... brown mallard's 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 ...
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... brown or sad- coloured heifer , hackles of a cock or a capon , several coloured silk and crewel to make the body of the fly , the feathers of a drake's head , black or brown sheep's wool , or hog's wool or hair , thread of gold and of ...
... brown or sad- coloured heifer , hackles of a cock or a capon , several coloured silk and crewel to make the body of the fly , the feathers of a drake's head , black or brown sheep's wool , or hog's wool or hair , thread of gold and of ...
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... brown of a mallard's feather for the wings ; and you are to know , that these two are most excellent flies , that is , the May - fly and the oak - fly . And let me again tell you , that you keep as far from the water as you can possibly ...
... brown of a mallard's feather for the wings ; and you are to know , that these two are most excellent flies , that is , the May - fly and the oak - fly . And let me again tell you , that you keep as far from the water as you can possibly ...
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... brown : the green - frog , which is a small one , is by Topsel taken to be venomous ; and so is the padock or frog - padock , which usually keeps or breeds on the land , and is very large , and bony , and big , especially the she - frog ...
... brown : the green - frog , which is a small one , is by Topsel taken to be venomous ; and so is the padock or frog - padock , which usually keeps or breeds on the land , and is very large , and bony , and big , especially the she - frog ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 10 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.