The Fisherman: A Guide to the Inexperienced : How, when and where to Catch Fish

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Gordon and Gotch, 1888 - 106 sider

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Side 3 - Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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Side 7 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
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Side 12 - The dancing imiml« through the dewy meads. She fills profuse ten thousand little throats With music, modulating all their notes ; And charms the woodland scenes and wilds unknown With artless airs and concerts of her own.
Side 3 - Doubt not therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning; the question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ; for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice...
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