The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's RecreationWiley & Putnam, 1847 - 249 pages |
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Page iii
... worm , he comes like a chi- valrous knight to wreak upon them the wrong they would do , and slay them as they think to slay . For every one he kills a hundred less lives are saved , and the small fry shoot fearlessly along , where once ...
... worm , he comes like a chi- valrous knight to wreak upon them the wrong they would do , and slay them as they think to slay . For every one he kills a hundred less lives are saved , and the small fry shoot fearlessly along , where once ...
Page xcvii
... worm provokes a snig , Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd , The Tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook , E Which having first your ...
... worm provokes a snig , Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd , The Tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook , E Which having first your ...
Page 56
... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm , or a case - worm , any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a trout in a hot evening : when as you walk by a brook , and ...
... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm , or a case - worm , any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a trout in a hot evening : when as you walk by a brook , and ...
Page 57
... worms ; in May , June , or July , he will bite at any fly , or at cherries , or at beetles with their legs and wings cut off , or at any kind of snail , or at the black bee that breeds in clay walls ; and he never refuses a grasshopper ...
... worms ; in May , June , or July , he will bite at any fly , or at cherries , or at beetles with their legs and wings cut off , or at any kind of snail , or at the black bee that breeds in clay walls ; and he never refuses a grasshopper ...
Page 62
... worms that breed in their nests , or some other ways that we mortals know not ; and this may be be- lieved of the Fordidge trout , which , as it is said of the stork ( Jerem . viii . , 7 ) , that " he knows his season , " so he knows ...
... worms that breed in their nests , or some other ways that we mortals know not ; and this may be be- lieved of the Fordidge trout , which , as it is said of the stork ( Jerem . viii . , 7 ) , that " he knows his season , " so he knows ...
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Page 73 - Fair lined slippers 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.
Page 75 - 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.
Page 72 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 69 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Page vii - Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish spears?
Page 73 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 246 - I'll be rather. Would the World now adopt me for her heir ; Would beauty's Queen entitle me the fair ; Fame speak me fortune's minion ; could I
Page 67 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing. insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 106 - 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.