 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...  Rural Sports - Page 447by William Barker Daniel - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Gay - 1753 - 282 pages
...into the day. You now a more delufive art muft try, I75 And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride, Let nature guide thee ; fometimes golden wire Thefhining bellies of the fly require; i80 The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...look into the day. You now a more delufive art muft try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride, Let nature guide thee ; fometimes golden wire The fLining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle muft... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...mofs ; A'mid. the verdant bed they twine, they toil,And. from their bodies wipe their native foil. To frame the little animal, provide ^ All the gay...hues that wait on female pride, Let nature guide thee ; fometimes golden wiie The filming bellies of the fty require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle muft... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 pages
...beautiful defcription of the materials ufed in fly-making, which is quoted from the above-mentioned poem. " To frame the little animal provide " All the gay hues...that 'wait on female pride ; " Let nature guide thee, fometimes getdea wire, " The Jhining bellies of the fly require. '' The peacock' s plumes thy tackle... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 372 pages
...the day i You now a more delufive art muft try, i-75 And tempt their hunger with the curious ft'y. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride i Let nature guide thee ; fometimes golden wire The fliining bellies of the fly require ; iSo The peacock's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...look into the day : You now a more dclufivc art muft try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. , Is gentle love, and charms all womankind ; Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's : I.tt nature guide thcc ; fomctimes golden wire The mining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1794 - 182 pages
...the featherM hook, 'Silent along the 'mazy margin Aray, And with the fur-wrought fty delude the prey. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : tet Nature guide thee ; fometimes golden wire The mining bellies of the fty require ; The peacock's... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...the day : You ПОЛУ a more dclufiveirt muft try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. • To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...that wait on female pride ; Let nature guide thee ; fomeUBics golden wire. The fhining bellies of the fly require ; * The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...into the day : You now a more delufive art rmift try, And ttmpt their hunger with the curious йу. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...that wait on female pride ; Let nature guide thee ; fomctimes golden wire The (hinirg bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle muft... | |
 | 1797 - 420 pages
...look into the day : You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; 180 The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each... | |
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