The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingT. Tegg & Son, 1835 - 328 страници |
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... begin a pilgrimage of more than a hundred miles , into a country the most difficult and hazardous that can be conceived for an aged man to travel in , to visit his friend Cotton , + and , doubtless , * See his Letter to Charles Cotton ...
... begin a pilgrimage of more than a hundred miles , into a country the most difficult and hazardous that can be conceived for an aged man to travel in , to visit his friend Cotton , + and , doubtless , * See his Letter to Charles Cotton ...
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... begin or refuse to play as freely as I myself have ? Nay , who knows but that it is a defect of my not understanding her language ( for doubtless cats talk and reason with one another ) that we agree no better ? and who knows but that ...
... begin or refuse to play as freely as I myself have ? Nay , who knows but that it is a defect of my not understanding her language ( for doubtless cats talk and reason with one another ) that we agree no better ? and who knows but that ...
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... begin . Auceps . Your motion is consented to with all my heart ; and to testify it , I will begin as you have desired me . And first , for the element that I use to trade in , which is the air , an element of more worth than weight , an ...
... begin . Auceps . Your motion is consented to with all my heart ; and to testify it , I will begin as you have desired me . And first , for the element that I use to trade in , which is the air , an element of more worth than weight , an ...
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... a farther enlargement of some of those several heads of which I have spoken . But no more at present . Venator . Well , sir , and I will now take my turn , and will The first begin with a commendation of the earth , THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... a farther enlargement of some of those several heads of which I have spoken . But no more at present . Venator . Well , sir , and I will now take my turn , and will The first begin with a commendation of the earth , THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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... begin with a commendation of the earth , as you have done most excellently of the air ; the earth being that element upon which I drive my pleasant , wholesome , hungry trade . earth is a solid settled element ; an element most ...
... begin with a commendation of the earth , as you have done most excellently of the air ; the earth being that element upon which I drive my pleasant , wholesome , hungry trade . earth is a solid settled element ; an element most ...
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Страница 110 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...
Страница 86 - 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 111 - 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 84 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago. And the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were oldfashioned poetry, but choicely good; I think much better than the strong lines which are now in fashion in this critical age.
Страница 54 - 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 232 - Dear Solitude, the soul's best friend, That man acquainted with himself dost make, And all his Maker's wonders to intend. With thee I here converse at will, And would be -glad to do so still, For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake.
Страница 85 - Slippers, lined choicely 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 58 - Wherefore, most sacred Spirit, I here present For me and all my fellows praise to Thee : And just it is that I should pay the rent, Because the benefit accrues to me.
Страница 83 - I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing. And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill.
Страница 85 - A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; 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.