The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and FishingChatto and Windus, 1875 - 320 sider |
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Side vi
... present engraving is , however , no less faithful to the original than remarkable for its excellence as a work of art ; and it may be said that a perfect resemblance of the patriarch of Anglers is now , for the first time , published ...
... present engraving is , however , no less faithful to the original than remarkable for its excellence as a work of art ; and it may be said that a perfect resemblance of the patriarch of Anglers is now , for the first time , published ...
Side viii
... present biographer . The prefaces to Walton's Lives of Donne , Wotton , Hooker , Herbert , and Sanderson , as well as those memoirs themselves , abound in anecdotes or traits of character of their amiable author , which had been ...
... present biographer . The prefaces to Walton's Lives of Donne , Wotton , Hooker , Herbert , and Sanderson , as well as those memoirs themselves , abound in anecdotes or traits of character of their amiable author , which had been ...
Side ix
... an edition of the Complete Angler worthy of the state of the Arts at the present day , and of the importance which was , in his opinion , due to the subject ; and during seven years in which the work has been PREFACE . ix.
... an edition of the Complete Angler worthy of the state of the Arts at the present day , and of the importance which was , in his opinion , due to the subject ; and during seven years in which the work has been PREFACE . ix.
Side xxiii
... present at his bedside , that it was by my restless importunity that he had prepared them for the press ; together with which ( as his best legacy ) he gave me all his sermon - notes , and his other papers , containing an extract of ...
... present at his bedside , that it was by my restless importunity that he had prepared them for the press ; together with which ( as his best legacy ) he gave me all his sermon - notes , and his other papers , containing an extract of ...
Side xxiv
... present . Walton always used the seal that was given to him by Donne , of which an accurate engraving will be found in a subsequent page . Walton wrote the following Elegy upon Donne , and , with similar tributes to his worth by Dr King ...
... present . Walton always used the seal that was given to him by Donne , of which an accurate engraving will be found in a subsequent page . Walton wrote the following Elegy upon Donne , and , with similar tributes to his worth by Dr King ...
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Side 79 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Side 127 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Side cxii - 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.
Side 102 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.