 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 sider
...doubt not to catch a- brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfaft : doubt not therefore, Sit, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning : the queftion is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is fomewhat like poetry, men... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 sider
...Merlin is bold;1 and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that angling is an...for angling is. somewhat like poetry, men are to be bom so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice :... | |
 | 1822 - 592 sider
...are born to angling, as they arc to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | 1822 - 600 sider
...are born to angling, as they are to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 sider
...are born to angling, as they are to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | 1823 - 858 sider
...Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an...for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom go : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ;... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 sider
...Merlin is bold : and yet I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast ; doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that angling is an...may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but \* that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sider
...Cowper. fctrtfis. Bishop (George) Morley, 1597 Cheapside. John David Michaelis, 1717 Halle. Do not doubt but that angling is an art, and an art worth your...angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so, and must not only bring an inquiring, observing wit, but also a large measure of hope and patience.... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 sider
...merlin is bold ; t and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not therefore, sir, but that angling is an art,...though both may be heightened by discourse and practice i , but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an ' inquiring, searching, observing... | |
 | 1833 - 388 sider
...sharp-sighted than any hawk, and more watchful and timorous than the highmettled Merlin is bold. — Doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth learning ; the question is, [mark this, Mr. Cynic) — whether you are capable of learning it. For... | |
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I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not therefore, Sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning: the question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? for angling is somewhat like... 
