The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing--James Smith, 1822 - 383 pages |
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... Trout , and some of the other fish : which I may take a liberty to commend , because they concern not myself . Next let me tell the reader , that in that which is the more useful part of this discourse , that is to say , the ...
... Trout , and some of the other fish : which I may take a liberty to commend , because they concern not myself . Next let me tell the reader , that in that which is the more useful part of this discourse , that is to say , the ...
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... Trout , the angler must observe his twelve several flies for the twelve months of the year : I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack ...
... Trout , the angler must observe his twelve several flies for the twelve months of the year : I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack ...
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... Trout with an artificial Fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than any Hawk you have named , and more watchful and timorous than your high - mettled Merlin is bold ; and yet , I doubt not to catch a brace or two to - morrow ...
... Trout with an artificial Fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp - sighted than any Hawk you have named , and more watchful and timorous than your high - mettled Merlin is bold ; and yet , I doubt not to catch a brace or two to - morrow ...
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... Trout , that low did lie , Rose at a well - dissembled flie ; There stood my friend , with patient skill , Attending of his trembling quill Already were the eaves possest With the swift Pilgrim's daubed nest ; The groves already did ...
... Trout , that low did lie , Rose at a well - dissembled flie ; There stood my friend , with patient skill , Attending of his trembling quill Already were the eaves possest With the swift Pilgrim's daubed nest ; The groves already did ...
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... Trout - hall , ( 1 ) About the year 1770 , upon the trial of an indictment before me at Hicks's Hall , a basket was produced in evidence , containing flounders that had been taken with unlawful nets in the river Thames , so small that ...
... Trout - hall , ( 1 ) About the year 1770 , upon the trial of an indictment before me at Hicks's Hall , a basket was produced in evidence , containing flounders that had been taken with unlawful nets in the river Thames , so small that ...
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Page 68 - 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 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Page 66 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and the milkmaid'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 68 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; 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 105 - 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 xxvii - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a...
Page 69 - 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.
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Page 237 - Here's no fantastic masque, nor dance, But of our kids that frisk and prance; Nor wars are seen, Unless upon the green Two harmless lambs are butting one the other...
Page 66 - 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. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?