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... sports and life full oft contemned are By men that spare No cost of time , wealth , life , to gain their end , And often spend Them all in hopes some happiness to see In what they are not , but they mean to be . We will not search for ...
... sports and life full oft contemned are By men that spare No cost of time , wealth , life , to gain their end , And often spend Them all in hopes some happiness to see In what they are not , but they mean to be . We will not search for ...
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... sport CHAP . VII . A Lecture on Artificial Flies . CHAP . VIII . The second Lecture on Artificial Flies . 387 The Third Day . CHAP . IX . A Morning Conference · CHAP . X. Of the TROUT and GRAYLING , and how to 394 dress them · 396 ...
... sport CHAP . VII . A Lecture on Artificial Flies . CHAP . VIII . The second Lecture on Artificial Flies . 387 The Third Day . CHAP . IX . A Morning Conference · CHAP . X. Of the TROUT and GRAYLING , and how to 394 dress them · 396 ...
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... sport and scoff at Anglers . Auc . And I profess myself a Falconer , and have heard many grave , serious men pity them , ' tis such a heavy , contemptible , dull recreation . PISC . You know , Gentlemen , ' tis an easy thing to scoff at ...
... sport and scoff at Anglers . Auc . And I profess myself a Falconer , and have heard many grave , serious men pity them , ' tis such a heavy , contemptible , dull recreation . PISC . You know , Gentlemen , ' tis an easy thing to scoff at ...
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... sport than she makes " me ? Shall I conclude her to be simple that has " her time to begin or refuse to play as freely as I 66 myself have ? Nay , who knows but that it is a " defect of my not understanding her language ( for ...
... sport than she makes " me ? Shall I conclude her to be simple that has " her time to begin or refuse to play as freely as I 66 myself have ? Nay , who knows but that it is a " defect of my not understanding her language ( for ...
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... sport , and glad to see so many dogs , and more men , all in pursuit of the Otter ; let's compliment no longer , but join unto them ; come honest Venator , let's be gone , let us make haste ; I long to be doing ; no reason- able hedge ...
... sport , and glad to see so many dogs , and more men , all in pursuit of the Otter ; let's compliment no longer , but join unto them ; come honest Venator , let's be gone , let us make haste ; I long to be doing ; no reason- able hedge ...
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Angling artificial fly bait Barbel belly better betwixt bite body bottom Bream bred breed Browne cadis called Carp catch caught CHAP Charles Cotton Chub colour commend Complete Angler Dace discourse doth doubtless dubbing earth excellent feather feed fish flies fly-fishing frog Gesner give Grayling hackle hair happy hath head Henry Kent Causton honest hook Izaak Walton John Chalkhill kind let me tell live London look mallard Master meat Minnow month Moses Browne never observed Otter Pike PISC PISCATOR pleasant pleasure pond recreation river river Dove Roach Salmon Scholar season shew silk sing Sir Francis Bacon song spawn sport stream sweet tail taken Thomas Ken three or four told Trout Trout and Grayling usually verjuice VIAT wings worm yellow
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Page 110 - 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 109 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Page 147 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Page 292 - He that loses his conscience, has nothing left that is worth keeping:" therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health : and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience ; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, — a blessing that money cannot buy ; and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Page 108 - 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 110 - But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 46 - 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 must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a 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 to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Page 242 - tis beloved by many: Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping: Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping: Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure.
Page 114 - I'll promise you I'll sing a song that was lately made at my request by Mr. William Basse, one that hath made the choice songs of the
Page lviii - And I am the willinger to justify the pleasant part of it, because though it is known I can be serious at seasonable times, yet the whole Discourse is, or rather was, a picture of my own disposition, especially in such days and times as I have laid aside business, and gone a fishing with honest Nat. and R. Roe ; but they are gone, and with them most of my pleasant hours, even as a shadow that passeth away and returns not.