Super Flumina: Angling Observations of a Coarse FishermanJ. Lane, 1905 - 231 sider |
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Side 14
... fellow beings , whereas in truth he is planning to vivisect the prejudices out of us all and especially out of Aunt Susan . " The captain spent his time in harbour fishing uninterestedly , catching great beard- ed , spiky - finned sea ...
... fellow beings , whereas in truth he is planning to vivisect the prejudices out of us all and especially out of Aunt Susan . " The captain spent his time in harbour fishing uninterestedly , catching great beard- ed , spiky - finned sea ...
Side 17
... fellow ! go fishing , and flee philosophilling , Those waters are curative where swims the big school . O Aquinas , Hegel and Thomas Hill Green , and ye O Biblicocritic apotomic moilers , The miller at Gawbridge is dearer by far to me ...
... fellow ! go fishing , and flee philosophilling , Those waters are curative where swims the big school . O Aquinas , Hegel and Thomas Hill Green , and ye O Biblicocritic apotomic moilers , The miller at Gawbridge is dearer by far to me ...
Side 24
... fellows spring aloft in the sunlight with a glitter of fine burnished silver , and come down with a fearless splash into the foaming pools . The cooks and diners have only a second - hand- right to call sturgeon , herring , tench , carp ...
... fellows spring aloft in the sunlight with a glitter of fine burnished silver , and come down with a fearless splash into the foaming pools . The cooks and diners have only a second - hand- right to call sturgeon , herring , tench , carp ...
Side 29
... fellow which the Blessed St. Ambrose held up to us as a type of chas tity , and persica is the pesca fluvialis , still without name or habitation in these parts . The translator's conscience seems a little uneasy , for she puts a note ...
... fellow which the Blessed St. Ambrose held up to us as a type of chas tity , and persica is the pesca fluvialis , still without name or habitation in these parts . The translator's conscience seems a little uneasy , for she puts a note ...
Side 36
... prey Intent on worms and weeds , and mud and sand , And spawn and flies . Then lifts them clean away To die in some far stranger lovelier land . O Angler Death ! O little fishes , fellow fishes , ye Who love 36 Super Flumina.
... prey Intent on worms and weeds , and mud and sand , And spawn and flies . Then lifts them clean away To die in some far stranger lovelier land . O Angler Death ! O little fishes , fellow fishes , ye Who love 36 Super Flumina.
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Side 34 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest. The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's triumphing voice. The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled.
Side 33 - Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines ; And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly ; There stood my Friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill.
Side 126 - And nearer to the river's trembling edge 25 There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white ; And starry river buds among the sedge ; And floating water-lilies, broad and bright, Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge With moonlight beams of their own watery light ; 30 And bulrushes and reeds, of such deep green As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.
Side 85 - Dear stream! dear bank, where often I Have sat and pleased my pensive eye, Why, since each drop of thy quick store Runs thither whence it flowed before, Should poor souls fear a shade or night, Who came, sure, from a sea of light?
Side 61 - Scylla meanwhile caught from out my hollow ship six of my company, the hardiest of their hands and the chief in might. And looking into the swift ship to find my men, even then I marked their feet and hands as they were lifted on high, and they cried aloud in their agony, and called me by my name for that last time of all.
Side 55 - All cover'd with a snaring bait, Alas, to tempt thee to thy fate, And dragge thee from the brooke. 0 harmless tenant of the flood, 1 do not wish to spill thy blood, For Nature unto thee Perchance hath given a tender wife, And children dear, to charm thy life, As she hath done for me. Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish ; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, a wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the raskall in I Dr.
Side 33 - And now all Nature seem'd in love, The lusty sap began to move; New juice did stir th' embracing Vines; And Birds had drawn their Valentines: The jealous Trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled flie: There stood my Friend, with patient skill Attending of his trembling quill.
Side 55 - And dragge thee from the brooke, 0 harmless tenant of the flood, 1 do not wish to spill thy blood ; For Nature unto thee Perchance has given a tender wife, And children dear, to charme thy life, As she hath done to me. Enjoy thy streame, O harmless Fish...
Side 205 - The moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wipe out a word of it.
Side 27 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.