 Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Side 4671823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1849 - 558 sider
...: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, observing, searching wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience.' Thus you see, mother,"... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 sider
...: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good Angler, must not only bring an enquiring, searching, observing wit ; but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1854 - 348 sider
...: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 sider
...so: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; 2 but having once got and practised 1 This is a mistake : it was Awcepi and not Venator, that named... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 sider
...have strength, of argument, to defend and maintain his profession against envy and slander." — H. it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. Ven. Sir, I am now become so full of expectation, that I long... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 394 sider
...of these his inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice :v but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;6 but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant,... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 sider
...discourse and practicej he must bring to the work not only " an enquiring, searching, observing wit," but " a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself." Endowed with such qualities, and pursuing the same system as did the father of all anglers, of exerting... | |
 | Francis Brinley - 1860 - 294 sider
...; I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good Angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observant wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to... | |
 | 1873 - 284 sider
...Dennys in his mind, when he speaks of the inward qualities which a clever angler should possess : " He that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an enquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patienco, and a... | |
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