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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... directions for taking fish with a hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but * In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24 ...
... directions for taking fish with a hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but * In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24 ...
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... directions , How the angler is to make his harnays , or tackle , he is thus instructed to provide a rod : " And how ye shall make your rodde craftly , here I shall teche you . Ye shall kytte between Myghelmas and Candylmas , a fayr ...
... directions , How the angler is to make his harnays , or tackle , he is thus instructed to provide a rod : " And how ye shall make your rodde craftly , here I shall teche you . Ye shall kytte between Myghelmas and Candylmas , a fayr ...
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... directions for making flies , contained in this book , are , as one would expect , very inartificial : we shall there- fore only add , that the authoress advises the angler to be provided with twelve different sorts ; between which and ...
... directions for making flies , contained in this book , are , as one would expect , very inartificial : we shall there- fore only add , that the authoress advises the angler to be provided with twelve different sorts ; between which and ...
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... directions without much variation , which shall follow . " In his fifth edition , he again mentions the use which he had made of Barker's book , but in different words : " I shall give some other directions for fly - fishing , such as ...
... directions without much variation , which shall follow . " In his fifth edition , he again mentions the use which he had made of Barker's book , but in different words : " I shall give some other directions for fly - fishing , such as ...
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... directions for the making thereof ; with observations for times and seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can ...
... directions for the making thereof ; with observations for times and seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can ...
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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.