The Compleat AnglerJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1928 - 215 sider |
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a-fishing anchovies ANDREW LANG Angling artificial fly bait Barbel belly better bite body Bream bred breed brother Peter called Carp catch caught Cheven Chub colour commendation Compleat Angler Coridon Dace DAY-continued discourse divers Donne doth doubtless earth especially excellent feathers feed fish flies fresh frog gentle Gesner give ground-bait Gudgeon hair hath honest scholar hook hostess Izaak kind Lamprey learned let me tell live look master meadow meat melter Michael Drayton minnow months mouth musick never observed Otter Perch Pike PISCATOR pleasant pleasure pond pray recreation rich river Roach Salmon season sing Sir Francis Bacon Sir Henry Wotton smell song spawn sport stream sweet swim tail thank three or four told Trout turn usually VENATOR vext Walton wings winter wool worm Wotton
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Side 215 - Time had piled up at the gates of death, so when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in Him.
Side 70 - 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.
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Side 16 - 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 70 - Slippers, lined choicely for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw, and ivy buds, With coral clasps, and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Side 71 - 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, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Side 210 - And, in the next place, look to your health : and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience ; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy ; and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Side 42 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink. With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace ; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war, or wantonness.
Side 32 - But who hath praise enough ? nay, who hath any "? None can express thy works, but he that knows them ; And none can know thy works, which are so many, And so complete, but only he that owes them.
Side 131 - This dish of meat is too good for any but Anglers, or very honest men ; and I trust, you will prove both, and therefore I have trusted you with this secret.