 | 1819 - 424 pages
...Dr. Nowell, {. Sir Henry Wotton, R. Nobbes,|| Colonel Venables, Mr. Leonard Mas* " See 'The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation,' in two parts, by the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton, Esq. published by Moses Browne, author of ' Piscatory Eclogues,... | |
 | Thomas Satchell - 1882 - 32 pages
...misfortune to be hanged, for forgery.] have now lost much of their sharpness. The engraver, by the way, The compleat angler : or, contemplative man's recreation. In two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton, and Charles Cotton, Esq ; I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing.... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - 1883 - 442 pages
...their sharpness. The engraver, by the way, subsequently had the misfortune to be hanged, for forgery.] The compleat angler : or, contemplative man's recreation. In two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton, and Charles Cotton, Esq ; I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing.... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - 1883 - 136 pages
...Edi- announces it, in the title-paee, as " very much tion.1759.' , , , . j» amended and 1mproved. 1 " The compleat angler : or, contemplative man's recreation. In two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton, Esq. : I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish'ponds, fish, and fishing.... | |
 | Walter John Turrell - 1910 - 274 pages
...for the most Part so trivial, rather adding to, and perplexing his Words, like the Commentators on the Greek Poet, than either clearing up or enlarging his Sense ; that I could not," says he, " but wonder at seeing so much done to so little Purpose." They, at best, do... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1926 - 942 pages
...Father was born before me," omitted in the earlier edition. 2031 WALTON (Isaac) & COTTON (Charles). THE COMPLEAT ANGLER : or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. In Two Parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton, Esq. ; I. Being a Discourse of Rivers. Fish-Ponds, Fish, (Continued... | |
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The compleat angler : or, contemplative man's recreation. In two parts. By the ingenious and celebrated Mr. Isaac Walton, and Charles Cotton, Esq ; I. Being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. 