The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing--James Smith, 1822 - 383 страници |
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... give , in the year 1653 published , in a very elegant manner , his Complete Angler , or Contemplative Man's Recreation , in small duodecimo , adorned with exquisite cuts of most of the fish mentioned in it . The artist who engraved them ...
... give , in the year 1653 published , in a very elegant manner , his Complete Angler , or Contemplative Man's Recreation , in small duodecimo , adorned with exquisite cuts of most of the fish mentioned in it . The artist who engraved them ...
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... give , but lend you my horse ; be sure you be honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you ...
... give , but lend you my horse ; be sure you be honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you ...
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... give you his very directions without much variation , which shall follow . " 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 ...
... give you his very directions without much variation , which shall follow . " 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 ...
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... give of these books [ art . MAPLE- TOFT ] ; but one , more accurate , is to be found at the end of Hearne's Caii Vindicia , which makes them seven in number : the third in order , was by the compilers called " The whole law of God ...
... give of these books [ art . MAPLE- TOFT ] ; but one , more accurate , is to be found at the end of Hearne's Caii Vindicia , which makes them seven in number : the third in order , was by the compilers called " The whole law of God ...
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... give it in English , " It is fit that between the business of life and the day of death , some space should intervene . " The reflection on which is supposed to have moved the emperor to resign his dignities , and betake himself to an ...
... give it in English , " It is fit that between the business of life and the day of death , some space should intervene . " The reflection on which is supposed to have moved the emperor to resign his dignities , and betake himself to an ...
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Страница 68 - 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 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Страница 66 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Страница 68 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; 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 105 - 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 xxvii - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a...
Страница 69 - 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 xxi - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Страница 237 - Here's no fantastic masque, nor dance, But of our kids that frisk and prance; Nor wars are seen, Unless upon the green Two harmless lambs are butting one the other...
Страница 66 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?