The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and ShootingA. and C. Black, 1840 - 439 sider |
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Side x
... Common Carp , The Barbel , The Gudgeon , • 93 93 95 96 102 105 112 114 The Tench , The Bream , or Carp Bream , The Roach , The Dace , The Graining , 115 116 119 122 123 The Chub , or Skelly , 124 The Red - Eye , or Rudd , 126 The ...
... Common Carp , The Barbel , The Gudgeon , • 93 93 95 96 102 105 112 114 The Tench , The Bream , or Carp Bream , The Roach , The Dace , The Graining , 115 116 119 122 123 The Chub , or Skelly , 124 The Red - Eye , or Rudd , 126 The ...
Side xi
... Common Trout , The Professor , PAGE 132 147 180 183 192 232 Green Mantle , Long Tom , Sam Slick , 233 The Grizzly King , 234 The Great Lake Trout , 246 The Char , 258 The Grayling , 266 269 Eels , LIST OF WORKS ON ANGLING . SHOOTING ...
... Common Trout , The Professor , PAGE 132 147 180 183 192 232 Green Mantle , Long Tom , Sam Slick , 233 The Grizzly King , 234 The Great Lake Trout , 246 The Char , 258 The Grayling , 266 269 Eels , LIST OF WORKS ON ANGLING . SHOOTING ...
Side 10
... common use ? An artificial fly can , at the best , be considered only as the repre- sentative of a natural one which has been drowned , as it is impossible to imitate the dancing or hover- ing flight of the real insect over the surface ...
... common use ? An artificial fly can , at the best , be considered only as the repre- sentative of a natural one which has been drowned , as it is impossible to imitate the dancing or hover- ing flight of the real insect over the surface ...
Side 25
... common colours are various shades of brown ; they have pretty long feelers or antennæ , which in a state of repose are bent over their shoulders and along their sides ; their wings C are held decumbent , or close to the sides . FISHES ...
... common colours are various shades of brown ; they have pretty long feelers or antennæ , which in a state of repose are bent over their shoulders and along their sides ; their wings C are held decumbent , or close to the sides . FISHES ...
Side 26
... common black ant , and occurs in the nests or hills of that insect during the summer and autumnal months . There is scarcely any season of the year , except- ing an ice - bound winter , in which an experienced angler may not ...
... common black ant , and occurs in the nests or hills of that insect during the summer and autumnal months . There is scarcely any season of the year , except- ing an ice - bound winter , in which an experienced angler may not ...
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Side 153 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
Side 276 - TC The British Angler's Manual; or, The Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. With some Account of the Principal Rivers, Lakes and Trout Streams in the United Kingdom, with Instructions in Fly-Fishing, Trolling and Angling at the Bottom, and more Particularly for the Trout.
Side 296 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Side 313 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Side 293 - In a legal sense, a forest is a certain territory of woody grounds and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide there in the safe protection of the king, for his delight and pleasure...
Side 278 - Oh, knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he ! who far from public rage, Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life.
Side 287 - Hawks use that most, and it yields us most recreation ; it stops not the high soaring of my noble generous Falcon ; in it she ascends to such an height, as the dull eyes of beasts and fish are not able to reach to...
Side 257 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us and the waste of seas, Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.
Side 276 - Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. Wherein most or all of the cities, citadels, sea-ports, castles, forts, fortresses, rivers, and rivulets, are compendiously described.
Side 4 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.