The Complete Angler; Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Fac-simile Reprint of the First Edition, Published in 1653Baker & Taylor, 1653 - 246 sider |
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Side vii
... reasons of this scarcity , such is , and is ever likely to be , the popularity of the book itself , and such the excellence of moral repose , contemplativeness , and genuine religious spirit presented by the mind of the author , that it ...
... reasons of this scarcity , such is , and is ever likely to be , the popularity of the book itself , and such the excellence of moral repose , contemplativeness , and genuine religious spirit presented by the mind of the author , that it ...
Side ix
... reason highly probable in connection with what was evidently meant for a practically useful book . Some of the types used in printing the first edition are altogether obsolete : to save all risk of departure from the exact form , these ...
... reason highly probable in connection with what was evidently meant for a practically useful book . Some of the types used in printing the first edition are altogether obsolete : to save all risk of departure from the exact form , these ...
Side 16
... reasons , tobe preferr'd before Con- templation . Concerning which two opinions , I shall forbear to add a third , by declaring my own , and rest my felf contented in telling you ( my wor- thy friend ) thatboth these meetto- gether ...
... reasons , tobe preferr'd before Con- templation . Concerning which two opinions , I shall forbear to add a third , by declaring my own , and rest my felf contented in telling you ( my wor- thy friend ) thatboth these meetto- gether ...
Side 22
... reason fome have called this fifh the Sea- Angler . There are alfo luftful and chafte fishes , of which I shall also give you examples . And first , what Dubartas sayes of a fish called the Sargus ; which ( because none can express it ...
... reason fome have called this fifh the Sea- Angler . There are alfo luftful and chafte fishes , of which I shall also give you examples . And first , what Dubartas sayes of a fish called the Sargus ; which ( because none can express it ...
Side 110
... reason wil make the wings of it , you having withall regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook , then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the fhank of your hook ; and ...
... reason wil make the wings of it , you having withall regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook , then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook , then the point of your feather next the fhank of your hook ; and ...
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Side 41 - The rest complains of cares to come. 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. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break...
Side 36 - Look you, Scholar, thereabout we shall have a bite presently, or not at all: have with you Sir ! o
Side 39 - I know it now. I learned the first part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor daughter; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world began to take hold of me: but you shall, God willing, hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin, sing the first part to the gentlemen...
Side 218 - I'll be rather. Would the World now adopt me for her heir ; Would beauty's Queen entitle me the fair ; Fame speak me fortune's minion ; could I
Side 53 - Angle, for a companion that is cheerful, and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning ; nor men that cannot well bear it, to repent the money they spend...
Side 27 - ... as a snail moves, to that chub you intend to catch ; let your bait fall gently upon the water three or four inches before him, and he will infallibly take the bait.
Side 43 - ... Well sung, good woman ; I thank you. I'll give you another dish of fish one of these days ; and then beg another song of you. Come, scholar ! let Maudlin alone : do not you offer to spoil her voice. Look ! yonder comes mine hostess, to call us to supper. How now ! is my brother Peter come ? HOSTESS. Yes, and a friend with him. They are both glad to hear that you are in these parts ; and long to see you ; and long to be at supper, for they be very hungry.
Side 52 - High trolollie, lollie, lol; high trolollie, lee; And with their pleasant roundelays Bid welcome to the spring : Then care away, and wend along with me. This is not half the happiness The countryman enjoys, High trolollie, lollie...
Side 159 - And if myself have leave to see, I need not their light, having thee. Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling snare, or windowy net.
Side 26 - ... possible ; then put a grasshopper on your hook, and let your hook hang a quarter of a yard short of the water, to which end you must rest your rod on some bough of the tree...