Super Flumina: Angling Observations of a Coarse FishermanJ. Lane, 1905 - 231 sider |
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Side 41
... brood ; And worms that breed on every herb and tree , And sundry flies , that quick and lively be . " For some days before the solemn festival we collected baits . Gentles and insects of any sort were not to be had : but I 4I Roaching.
... brood ; And worms that breed on every herb and tree , And sundry flies , that quick and lively be . " For some days before the solemn festival we collected baits . Gentles and insects of any sort were not to be had : but I 4I Roaching.
Side 42
... sort of grue- some state , when it resembled flaccid liver . To this delightful list I added currants and sultanas , ( why not ? Roaches love a vege- table diet ) , and also suet . My cousin Hilda suggested egg paste and ants ' eggs ...
... sort of grue- some state , when it resembled flaccid liver . To this delightful list I added currants and sultanas , ( why not ? Roaches love a vege- table diet ) , and also suet . My cousin Hilda suggested egg paste and ants ' eggs ...
Side 43
... carrying a kite towards our upland , and we replied to his salutations but stiffly . At last we reached the pool and unladed our baits , lunch , rods , creels , and instru- ments . A sort of St. Martin's summer of hope 43 Roaching.
... carrying a kite towards our upland , and we replied to his salutations but stiffly . At last we reached the pool and unladed our baits , lunch , rods , creels , and instru- ments . A sort of St. Martin's summer of hope 43 Roaching.
Side 44
... sort of grudging mumble out of mere curiosity only , a curiosity quickly ap- peased . Fifty minutes more passed , and those wretched floats , tossed in a ceaseless sea - sick way , pathetic to behold with a sym- pathetic eye , and ...
... sort of grudging mumble out of mere curiosity only , a curiosity quickly ap- peased . Fifty minutes more passed , and those wretched floats , tossed in a ceaseless sea - sick way , pathetic to behold with a sym- pathetic eye , and ...
Side 46
... sort . I have caught them even in a hurricane , but very sparely , and then at the end and not at the beginning of a forty - eight hour gale . The reason they hate wind is partly the noise of it , for any shaking noise will scare them ...
... sort . I have caught them even in a hurricane , but very sparely , and then at the end and not at the beginning of a forty - eight hour gale . The reason they hate wind is partly the noise of it , for any shaking noise will scare them ...
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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.