| Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...wherein to try What the best master's hand ean do, With the most deadly killing Hie : A day, with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treach'rous... | |
| William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 654 pages
...wherein to try What the best Master's hand can do With the most deadly killing /•'///. A day, with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching Sun...curl the stream ; And, Master, half our work is done. Then whilst behind some bush we wait, » The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing die : A Hay. with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream. And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
| Horace Smith - 1826 - 418 pages
...shall have a delightful morning for our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion : — ' A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a...this, and not feel his heart expand with gratitude towards the Creator, and benevolence towards all his creatures ?" As the heart of the angler thus ran... | |
| Horace Smith - 1826 - 418 pages
...our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion:— ' A day without too bright a beam, f A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...this, and not feel his heart expand with gratitude towards the Creator, and benevolence towards all his creatures ?" As the heart of the angler thus ran... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
| 1832 - 336 pages
...wherein to try What the best master's hand can do , - With the most deadly killing fly : A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...wherein to try' What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
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