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 and Company, at Aldine House, 1896 - 319 sider |
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... hear in our ears as we peruse their works . Of such was Mr. Jowett , sometime Master of Balliol College , a good man , now with God . It has ever seemed to me that friends of Walton must thus have heard his voice as they read him , and ...
... hear in our ears as we peruse their works . Of such was Mr. Jowett , sometime Master of Balliol College , a good man , now with God . It has ever seemed to me that friends of Walton must thus have heard his voice as they read him , and ...
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... hear ; if they can , their vocabulary must be full of strange oaths , for all anglers are not patient men . A malison on the trout that ' bulge ' and ' tail , ' on the salmon that ' jiggers , ' or sulks , or lightly gambols over and ...
... hear ; if they can , their vocabulary must be full of strange oaths , for all anglers are not patient men . A malison on the trout that ' bulge ' and ' tail , ' on the salmon that ' jiggers , ' or sulks , or lightly gambols over and ...
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... hear your answers ; and , in confidence you speak the truth , I shall put on a boldness to ask you , Sir , whether business or pleasure caused you to be so early up , and walk so fast ? for this other gentleman hath declared he is going ...
... hear your answers ; and , in confidence you speak the truth , I shall put on a boldness to ask you , Sir , whether business or pleasure caused you to be so early up , and walk so fast ? for this other gentleman hath declared he is going ...
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... make the contrary appear so evidently , that if you will but have patience to hear me , I shall remove all the anticipations that discourse , or time , B or prejudice , have possessed you with against that laudable The FIRST DAY 17.
... make the contrary appear so evidently , that if you will but have patience to hear me , I shall remove all the anticipations that discourse , or time , B or prejudice , have possessed you with against that laudable The FIRST DAY 17.
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... hear what you can say in the commendation of that recreation which each of you love and practise ; and having heard what you can say , I shall be glad to exercise your attention with what I can say concerning my own recreation and Art ...
... hear what you can say in the commendation of that recreation which each of you love and practise ; and having heard what you can say , I shall be glad to exercise your attention with what I can say concerning my own recreation and Art ...
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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.