The Compleat Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most AnglersJ.M. Dent, at Aldine House, 1896 - 319 sider |
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... PIKE 182 CHAPTER IX . ON THE CARP 201 CHAPTER X. ON THE BREAM 210 CHAPTER XI . ON THE TENCH 222 CHAPTER XII . ON THE PERCH 225 CHAPTER XIII . OF THE EEL , AND OTHER FISH THAT WANT SCALES • 230 CHAPTER XIV . OF THE BARBEL 242 CHAPTER XV ...
... PIKE 182 CHAPTER IX . ON THE CARP 201 CHAPTER X. ON THE BREAM 210 CHAPTER XI . ON THE TENCH 222 CHAPTER XII . ON THE PERCH 225 CHAPTER XIII . OF THE EEL , AND OTHER FISH THAT WANT SCALES • 230 CHAPTER XIV . OF THE BARBEL 242 CHAPTER XV ...
Side xi
... PIKE ' USE HIM AS THOUGH YOU LOVED HIM ' 6 TOO GOOD FOR any but anglers , OR VERY HONEST MEN ' . TAIL - PIECE TO CHAPTER VIII SIR RICHARD BAKER HEAD - PIECE ON THE CARP TAIL - PIECE TO CHAPTER IX HEAD - PIECE ON THE BREAM GO YOURSELF so ...
... PIKE ' USE HIM AS THOUGH YOU LOVED HIM ' 6 TOO GOOD FOR any but anglers , OR VERY HONEST MEN ' . TAIL - PIECE TO CHAPTER VIII SIR RICHARD BAKER HEAD - PIECE ON THE CARP TAIL - PIECE TO CHAPTER IX HEAD - PIECE ON THE BREAM GO YOURSELF so ...
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... ( pike ) . ' Franck proposed a rational theory , which my Compleat Angler no sooner deliberated , but dropped his argument , and leaves Gesner to defend it , so huffed away . . ' ' So note , the true character of an industrious angler ...
... ( pike ) . ' Franck proposed a rational theory , which my Compleat Angler no sooner deliberated , but dropped his argument , and leaves Gesner to defend it , so huffed away . . ' ' So note , the true character of an industrious angler ...
Side xxxii
... pike , so the Anglican bishops were se- curity for Walton's creed . To him , if we may say so , it was easy to be saved , while Bunyan , a greater humorist , could be saved only in following a path that skirted madness , and ' as by ...
... pike , so the Anglican bishops were se- curity for Walton's creed . To him , if we may say so , it was easy to be saved , while Bunyan , a greater humorist , could be saved only in following a path that skirted madness , and ' as by ...
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... pike , he quotes the theory that they are bred by pickerel weed , only as what ' some think . ' In describing the use of frogs as bait , he makes the famous , or infamous , remark , ' Use him as though you loved him . . . that he may ...
... pike , he quotes the theory that they are bred by pickerel weed , only as what ' some think . ' In describing the use of frogs as bait , he makes the famous , or infamous , remark , ' Use him as though you loved him . . . that he may ...
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Side 152 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Side 153 - 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.
Side 152 - 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...
Side 149 - ... rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie ; My music shews you have your closes, And all must die.
Side 54 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place; Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace; And on the world and my creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war or wantonness.
Side 105 - 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.
Side 101 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat...
Side 106 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Side 75 - I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat as I was to catch him : I 'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.
Side li - I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence : " that they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.