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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... concerning the merit of what is here offered to their consideration and censure ; and if the last prove too severe , as I have a liberty , so I am resolved to use it , and neglect all sour censures . And I wish the reader also to take ...
... concerning the merit of what is here offered to their consideration and censure ; and if the last prove too severe , as I have a liberty , so I am resolved to use it , and neglect all sour censures . And I wish the reader also to take ...
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... concerning them . And he may note , that there are in Wales and other countries , peculiar flies , proper to the particular place or country ; and doubtless , unless a man makes a fly to counterfeit that very fly in that place , he is ...
... concerning them . And he may note , that there are in Wales and other countries , peculiar flies , proper to the particular place or country ; and doubtless , unless a man makes a fly to counterfeit that very fly in that place , he is ...
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... concerning this Life : " I am glad that the general demonstration of his [ Doctor Donne's ] worth was so fairly preserved , and represented to the world , by your pen , in the history of his life ; indeed so well , that , beside others ...
... concerning this Life : " I am glad that the general demonstration of his [ Doctor Donne's ] worth was so fairly preserved , and represented to the world , by your pen , in the history of his life ; indeed so well , that , beside others ...
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... concerning frogs , serpents , caterpillars , and other animals , though not of fish , extracted from the other writers above named , and others with their names to the respective facts - it furnished Walton with a great variety of ...
... concerning frogs , serpents , caterpillars , and other animals , though not of fish , extracted from the other writers above named , and others with their names to the respective facts - it furnished Walton with a great variety of ...
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... concerning travel , in his Letter prefixed to Milton's Comus . This treatise of Sir Henry's is , undoubtedly , the best on the subject of any in the modern languages : a few years after his death it was translated into Latin , and ...
... concerning travel , in his Letter prefixed to Milton's Comus . This treatise of Sir Henry's is , undoubtedly , the best on the subject of any in the modern languages : a few years after his death it was translated into Latin , and ...
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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.