The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and ShootingA. and C. Black, 1840 - 439 sider |
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... present day has been derived from leisure and the love of sport , aided by the more delicate gear which modern ingenuity has invented for the deception of the finny race . The comparative merits of angling , and of the kindred ...
... present day has been derived from leisure and the love of sport , aided by the more delicate gear which modern ingenuity has invented for the deception of the finny race . The comparative merits of angling , and of the kindred ...
Side 11
... present prevail on the matter degrade it beneath its real dignity and importance . When Plato , speaking of painting , says that it is merely an art of imitation , and that our pleasure arises from the truth and accuracy of the likeness ...
... present prevail on the matter degrade it beneath its real dignity and importance . When Plato , speaking of painting , says that it is merely an art of imitation , and that our pleasure arises from the truth and accuracy of the likeness ...
Side 17
... present department of our subject in sad and serious earnest , because the novelty of our notions on this head has brought us some discredit with the gentle craft , and induced the belief , that we maintain a theory which we do not ...
... present department of our subject in sad and serious earnest , because the novelty of our notions on this head has brought us some discredit with the gentle craft , and induced the belief , that we maintain a theory which we do not ...
Side 25
... present one of the most obscure , though at the same time the most important and pervading , of all the subjects of physical learning . Professor Forbes has promised us to do something in this line , and will give in his " Report " the ...
... present one of the most obscure , though at the same time the most important and pervading , of all the subjects of physical learning . Professor Forbes has promised us to do something in this line , and will give in his " Report " the ...
Side 37
... present the most interesting fields for observation , he has no means of inspect- ing the finny tribes except by capturing them propria manu , and his doing so will greatly con- tribute , not only to his scientific knowledge , but ...
... present the most interesting fields for observation , he has no means of inspect- ing the finny tribes except by capturing them propria manu , and his doing so will greatly con- tribute , not only to his scientific knowledge , but ...
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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.