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 liii
... wings . ' Tis here that pleasures sweet and high Prostrate to our embraces lie : Such as to body , soul , or fame , Create no sickness , sin , or shame : Roses , not fenc'd with pricks , grow here ; No sting to th ' honey - bag is near ...
... wings . ' Tis here that pleasures sweet and high Prostrate to our embraces lie : Such as to body , soul , or fame , Create no sickness , sin , or shame : Roses , not fenc'd with pricks , grow here ; No sting to th ' honey - bag is near ...
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... wings scorched by the Sun's heat , she flies so near it , but her mettle makes her careless of danger ; for she then heeds nothing , but makes her nimble pinions cut the fluid air , and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains ...
... wings scorched by the Sun's heat , she flies so near it , but her mettle makes her careless of danger ; for she then heeds nothing , but makes her nimble pinions cut the fluid air , and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains ...
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... wings cut off , or at any kind of snail , or at the black bee that breeds in clay walls . And he never refuses a grasshopper , on the top of a swift stream , nor , at the bottom , the young humble - bee that breeds in long grass , and ...
... wings cut off , or at any kind of snail , or at the black bee that breeds in clay walls . And he never refuses a grasshopper , on the top of a swift stream , nor , at the bottom , the young humble - bee that breeds in long grass , and ...
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... wings , the under much the smaller , and the upper having four black spots . He says , that having disengaged itself from its exuvia , [ i.e. the case above mentioned , ] of which , he adds , he saw innumerable floating on the water ...
... wings , the under much the smaller , and the upper having four black spots . He says , that having disengaged itself from its exuvia , [ i.e. the case above mentioned , ] of which , he adds , he saw innumerable floating on the water ...
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... wings : Without the fire it dies ; in it , it joys , Living in that which all things else destroys . So slow Boôtes underneath him sees , In th ' icy islands , goslings hatch'd of trees ; Whose fruitful leaves , falling into the water ...
... wings : Without the fire it dies ; in it , it joys , Living in that which all things else destroys . So slow Boôtes underneath him sees , In th ' icy islands , goslings hatch'd of trees ; Whose fruitful leaves , falling into the water ...
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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"?