The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's RecreationPrivately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1925 - 445 sider |
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Side 46
... PISC . I am right glad to 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 ...
... PISC . I am right glad to 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 ...
Side 47
... PISC . O Sir , if they do , it is not so much to me and my fraternity as those base vermin the otters do . Auc . Why , Sir , I pray , of what fraternity are you , that you are so angry with the poor otters ? Pisc . I am , Sir , a ...
... PISC . O Sir , if they do , it is not so much to me and my fraternity as those base vermin the otters do . Auc . Why , Sir , I pray , of what fraternity are you , that you are so angry with the poor otters ? Pisc . I am , Sir , a ...
Side 48
... PISC . You know , Gentlemen , ' t is an easy thing to scoff at any art or recreation : a little wit , mixed with ill - nature , confidence , and malice , will do it ; but though they often venture boldly , yet they are often caught ...
... PISC . You know , Gentlemen , ' t is an easy thing to scoff at any art or recreation : a little wit , mixed with ill - nature , confidence , and malice , will do it ; but though they often venture boldly , yet they are often caught ...
Side 50
... PISC . Sir , I hope you will not judge my earnestness to be impatience and for my simplicity , if by that you mean a harmlessness , or that simplicity which was usually found in the primitive Christians , who were , as most Anglers are ...
... PISC . Sir , I hope you will not judge my earnestness to be impatience and for my simplicity , if by that you mean a harmlessness , or that simplicity which was usually found in the primitive Christians , who were , as most Anglers are ...
Side 59
... hope so too , though I fear it will . PISC . Gentlemen , let not prejudice prepossess you . I confess my discourse is like to prove suitable to my recreation , calm and quiet ; we seldom take CHAP . I. ] 59 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... hope so too , though I fear it will . PISC . Gentlemen , let not prejudice prepossess you . I confess my discourse is like to prove suitable to my recreation , calm and quiet ; we seldom take CHAP . I. ] 59 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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Side 116 - ... there I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots, and pebblestones, 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, these and other sights had so fully possessed...
Side 54 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Side 118 - 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 187 - I mean the arming-wire, through his mouth. and out at his gills ; and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming- wire of your hook ; or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire ; and in so doing, use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer.
Side 119 - 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 72 - But who hath praise enough ? nay, who hath any "? None can express thy works, but he that knows them ; And none can know thy works, which are so many, And so complete, but only he that owes them.
Side 85 - daubed nest : The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's triumphing voice; The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled. Joan takes her neat-rubbed pail, and now She trips to milk the sand-red cow, — Where, for some sturdy foot-ball swain, Joan strokes a syllabub or twain. The fields and gardens were beset With tulips, crocus, violet ; And now, though late, the modest rose Did more than half a blush disclose.
Side 7 - FAREWELL, thou busy world, and may We never meet again; Here I can eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more good in one short day Than he who his whole age out-wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears.
Side 9 - O my beloved nymph, fair Dove, Princess of rivers, how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a Summer's beam! And in it all thy wanton fry Playing at liberty, And, with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learned industriously to try!
Side 10 - Here in this despised recess, Would I, maugre winter's cold And the summer's worst excess, Try to live out to sixty full years old ; And, all the while, Without an envious eye On any thriving under Fortune's smile, Contented live, and then contented die.