The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's RecreationJ. Wiley & Sons, 1880 - 428 pages |
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... roach and dace and most other fish do ; and bold , because he fears not a shadow , or to see or be seen of any- body , as the trout and chub and all other fish do . And it is observed by Gesner , that the jawbones The Complete Angler . 163.
... roach and dace and most other fish do ; and bold , because he fears not a shadow , or to see or be seen of any- body , as the trout and chub and all other fish do . And it is observed by Gesner , that the jawbones The Complete Angler . 163.
Page 167
... roach or dace is , I think , best and most tempting , and a perch is the longest lived on a hook ; and having cut off his fin on his back , which may be done without hurting him , you must take your knife , which cannot be too sharp ...
... roach or dace is , I think , best and most tempting , and a perch is the longest lived on a hook ; and having cut off his fin on his back , which may be done without hurting him , you must take your knife , which cannot be too sharp ...
Page 171
... roach , and moving it up and down the water , is too easy a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it and yet , because I cut you short in that , I will com- mute for it , by telling you that that was told me for a se- cret , it ...
... roach , and moving it up and down the water , is too easy a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it and yet , because I cut you short in that , I will com- mute for it , by telling you that that was told me for a se- cret , it ...
Page 188
... roaches will mix their eggs and melt together , and so there is in many places a bastard * This story is certainly in Gesner ; but he has a fashion of telling every re- markable thing of the kind with an ut audio , leaving his reader to ...
... roaches will mix their eggs and melt together , and so there is in many places a bastard * This story is certainly in Gesner ; but he has a fashion of telling every re- markable thing of the kind with an ut audio , leaving his reader to ...
Page 193
... roach , or gudgeon , and bait it , and set it alive among your rods two feet deep from the cork , with a little red worm on the point of the hook ; then take a few crumbs of white bread , or some of the ground - bait , and sprinkle it ...
... roach , or gudgeon , and bait it , and set it alive among your rods two feet deep from the cork , with a little red worm on the point of the hook ; then take a few crumbs of white bread , or some of the ground - bait , and sprinkle it ...
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Page x - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page x - 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 52 - This day dame Nature seem'd in love: The lusty sap began to move; 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.
Page 87 - With coral clasps, and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love. Thy silver dishes for thy meat, As precious as the gods do eat. Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. 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 17 - But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth and say...
Page 123 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 89 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: 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...
Page 83 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good ; I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Page 44 - 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 hird 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 84 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILKWOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it "Come, shepherds, deck your herds," or "As at noon Dulcina rested," or "Phillida flouts me," or "Chevy Chace," or "Johnny Armstrong,