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 iv
... readers and disciples to the purest gratification , but he never fails to prove to them , chemin faisant , that it can only be attained by the exercise of patience and humility . He persuades to the paths of virtue , by shewing that ...
... readers and disciples to the purest gratification , but he never fails to prove to them , chemin faisant , that it can only be attained by the exercise of patience and humility . He persuades to the paths of virtue , by shewing that ...
Page viii
... reader will do him the justice to believe that his only motives for the republication of this work were a desire to perpetuate the memory of a meek , benevolent , pious man , and to contribute something to the improvement of an art of ...
... reader will do him the justice to believe that his only motives for the republication of this work were a desire to perpetuate the memory of a meek , benevolent , pious man , and to contribute something to the improvement of an art of ...
Page xiii
... reader may determine for himself , how much our author has contributed to the improvement of piscatory science , and how far his work may be said to be an original , it will be necessary for him to take a view of the state of angling at ...
... reader may determine for himself , how much our author has contributed to the improvement of piscatory science , and how far his work may be said to be an original , it will be necessary for him to take a view of the state of angling at ...
Page xvi
... readers in the following terms , viz . deuowtly , in sayenge affectuously youre custumable prayer ; and. Take a codlynge hoke ; and take a Roche , or a fresshe Heeryng ; and a wyre wyth an hole in the ende , and put it in at the mouth ...
... readers in the following terms , viz . deuowtly , in sayenge affectuously youre custumable prayer ; and. Take a codlynge hoke ; and take a Roche , or a fresshe Heeryng ; and a wyre wyth an hole in the ende , and put it in at the mouth ...
Page xix
... readers , the facetious parts would be proper to make the serious more palatable , while some reverend old readers might fancy themselves in his History of the Church as in a flower - garden , or one full of evergreens . " And why not ...
... readers , the facetious parts would be proper to make the serious more palatable , while some reverend old readers might fancy themselves in his History of the Church as in a flower - garden , or one full of evergreens . " And why not ...
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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"?