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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Page xxiii
... fly - fishing - I say this tra- veller - and Venator , the pupil of Walton , come out to be one and the same person ... artificial flies are indisputably the most exact and copious of all that have ever yet been published . At the ...
... fly - fishing - I say this tra- veller - and Venator , the pupil of Walton , come out to be one and the same person ... artificial flies are indisputably the most exact and copious of all that have ever yet been published . At the ...
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... 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 , for a friend's ...
... 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 , for a friend's ...
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... artificial fly ; the first joints of the legs must be pinched off ; and in this way , when the weed is rotten , which is sel- dom till September , the largest Dace are taken . ( 2 ) Chub will also take small Gudgeons in the way you ...
... artificial fly ; the first joints of the legs must be pinched off ; and in this way , when the weed is rotten , which is sel- dom till September , the largest Dace are taken . ( 2 ) Chub will also take small Gudgeons in the way you ...
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... fly , viz . either a natural or an artificial fly : concerning which three , I will give you some observations and directions . And , first , for worms . Of these there be very many sorts : some breed only in the earth , as the earth ...
... fly , viz . either a natural or an artificial fly : concerning which three , I will give you some observations and directions . And , first , for worms . Of these there be very many sorts : some breed only in the earth , as the earth ...
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... artificial minnow , that will catch a Trout as well as an artificial fly : and it was made by a handsome woman that had a fine hand , and a live minnow lying by her : the mould or body of the minnow was cloth , and wrought upon , or ...
... artificial minnow , that will catch a Trout as well as an artificial fly : and it was made by a handsome woman that had a fine hand , and a live minnow lying by her : the mould or body of the minnow was cloth , and wrought upon , or ...
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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.
Page xxi - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
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"?