The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. With a new intr. and notes [by H.K.S. Causton].1851 |
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Page xli
... Trout and thy Grayling may now feed securely ; I've left none behind me can take ' em so surely : Feed on then , and breed on , until the next year , And if I return , I expect my arrear . See * The Retirement . Stanzas Irregular , to ...
... Trout and thy Grayling may now feed securely ; I've left none behind me can take ' em so surely : Feed on then , and breed on , until the next year , And if I return , I expect my arrear . See * The Retirement . Stanzas Irregular , to ...
Page xlv
... Fly - Fishing , he sat down in earnest to the task , and in ten days sent up to him his " Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear stream . " This was in the Spring of the year 1676 : " to- day being but the seventh ...
... Fly - Fishing , he sat down in earnest to the task , and in ten days sent up to him his " Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear stream . " This was in the Spring of the year 1676 : " to- day being but the seventh ...
Page lxi
... TROUT an Artificial Minnow , and Flies ; with some merriment CHAP . VI . Observations of the UMBER or GRAYLING , and Directions how to fish for him CHAP . VII . Observations of the SALMON , with Direc- tions how to fish for him . • 128 ...
... TROUT an Artificial Minnow , and Flies ; with some merriment CHAP . VI . Observations of the UMBER or GRAYLING , and Directions how to fish for him CHAP . VII . Observations of the SALMON , with Direc- tions how to fish for him . • 128 ...
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... Fishing House . · CHAP . IV . Of the TROUT and GRAYLING , and how to fish for them . CHAP . V. Of Fly Fishing Page . • 340 349 · 351 362 . 373 CHAP . VI . Of Fly Making , and some trials of sport CHAP . VII . A Lecture on Artificial ...
... Fishing House . · CHAP . IV . Of the TROUT and GRAYLING , and how to fish for them . CHAP . V. Of Fly Fishing Page . • 340 349 · 351 362 . 373 CHAP . VI . Of Fly Making , and some trials of sport CHAP . VII . A Lecture on Artificial ...
Page 168
... Trout in one meadow he shall be white and faint , and very like to be lousy ; and as certainly , if I catch a Trout ... GRAYLING ,. 168 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
... Trout in one meadow he shall be white and faint , and very like to be lousy ; and as certainly , if I catch a Trout ... GRAYLING ,. 168 THE COMPLETE ANGLER .
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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.