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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... proved by its numerous editions , that it can scarcely be necessary to solicit the favour of the public towards one more carefully edited , and more highly embellished , than any that has hitherto appeared . Although much had been done ...
... proved by its numerous editions , that it can scarcely be necessary to solicit the favour of the public towards one more carefully edited , and more highly embellished , than any that has hitherto appeared . Although much had been done ...
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... prove the most attractive illus- tration . From that picture all the engraved portraits are said to have been taken ; but a single glance will show that in none of them have the real features been preserved . The present engraving is ...
... prove the most attractive illus- tration . From that picture all the engraved portraits are said to have been taken ; but a single glance will show that in none of them have the real features been preserved . The present engraving is ...
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... proved most fertile were as accessible to his former as to his 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 ...
... proved most fertile were as accessible to his former as to his 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 ...
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... proved on the 9th of April 1631 ; and his connection with the county of Stafford is shown by the testator's mentioning his uncle John Walton , of Mathfield , in that county , who may have been the father of the said Henry Walton , of ...
... proved on the 9th of April 1631 ; and his connection with the county of Stafford is shown by the testator's mentioning his uncle John Walton , of Mathfield , in that county , who may have been the father of the said Henry Walton , of ...
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... prove that it was printed at his recommendation . The poem was first published in 1613 , six years before , together with three others ; but in the only known copy of that edition , which is unfortunately imperfect , the verses to ...
... prove that it was printed at his recommendation . The poem was first published in 1613 , six years before , together with three others ; but in the only known copy of that edition , which is unfortunately imperfect , the verses to ...
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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.