 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...the best master's hand ean do, With the most deadly killing Hie : A day, with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treach'rous... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 654 pages
...best Master's hand can do With the most deadly killing /•'///. A day, with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching Sun ; A southern gale...curl the stream ; And, Master, half our work is done. Then whilst behind some bush we wait, » The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 pages
...the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing flic : A day. with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wart The scaly people to betray, — We'll prove jt. just, with treacherous... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | 1832 - 336 pages
...best master's hand can do , - With the most deadly killing fly : A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 pages
...the best master's hand can do With the moat deadly killing fly : A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work la done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray. We '11 prove it iust, with... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1837 - 316 pages
...our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion: — 1 A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...this, and not feel his heart expand with gratitude to the Creator, and benevolence towards all his creatures ?" As the heart of the angler thus ran over... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly. A day with not too bright a beam ; A wann, mitait eye how books demean themselves as well as 1 men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and Then, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, We'll рготе it just, with treacherous... | |
 | 1846 - 310 pages
...what more could the most fastidious angler possibly desire, but " A day with not too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, — And, fisher, half thy work is done ! " Hear this, ye gudgeon bobbers of Putney — ye kidnappers of minnows... | |
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We'll prove it just, with treacherous bait To make the preying Trout our prey. And think ourselves, in such an hour, Happier than those, though not so high, Who, like Leviathans, devour Of meaner men the smaller fry. 
