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Page 48
... Fowl with hungry jaws , And to the bottom of the River draws ; Nay , as a Boy in the smooth current swims , His teeth he fixes in his tender limbs * . tence betwene yowe , but yf I first assaye and make a Taste of yowe . And thus saynge ...
... Fowl with hungry jaws , And to the bottom of the River draws ; Nay , as a Boy in the smooth current swims , His teeth he fixes in his tender limbs * . tence betwene yowe , but yf I first assaye and make a Taste of yowe . And thus saynge ...
Page 69
... Fowl ; they are more easily digested when raw , than dressed in any form whatever ; are esteemed nourishing , without being heating , and are extremely proper in Consumptive Cases , or for People who are recovering from Sickness , where ...
... Fowl ; they are more easily digested when raw , than dressed in any form whatever ; are esteemed nourishing , without being heating , and are extremely proper in Consumptive Cases , or for People who are recovering from Sickness , where ...
Page 273
... Fowl , without producing Death ; and the Bird readily pecked , and swallowed Barley - corns , after the Lead had been poured down its Throat . Surely , this same Doctor SPRY , for- got his Humanity , when he pursued so cruel a Mode of ...
... Fowl , without producing Death ; and the Bird readily pecked , and swallowed Barley - corns , after the Lead had been poured down its Throat . Surely , this same Doctor SPRY , for- got his Humanity , when he pursued so cruel a Mode of ...
Page 374
... and especially at the full Moon of the Au- tumnal one ; when the Water from the SEA comes in upon it with such Fury , that the Inhabitants call it Eager , which overwhelms every thing in its Way , and the fowl shun 374 Norfolk. ...
... and especially at the full Moon of the Au- tumnal one ; when the Water from the SEA comes in upon it with such Fury , that the Inhabitants call it Eager , which overwhelms every thing in its Way , and the fowl shun 374 Norfolk. ...
Page 375
William Barker Daniel. every thing in its Way , and the fowl shun it . " very Water- The Waveney , and the Little Ouse , have their Sources in the same Tract of swampy Ground in the Vicinity of Lopham , and very near each other , the ...
William Barker Daniel. every thing in its Way , and the fowl shun it . " very Water- The Waveney , and the Little Ouse , have their Sources in the same Tract of swampy Ground in the Vicinity of Lopham , and very near each other , the ...
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2d Edit Acres Angler Animal Anno appears Art of Angling Bait Birds Bite Boat caught COLONSAY Colour Country Defendant died Dish ditto Dogs Earl Eggs ENGLAND Expence feet Fish Fishermen Fishery five Food four Fowl fyshe Game Gamekeeper Gentleman Ground Guineas Hare Head Herefordshire Hook Horse Hounds Hours House Hundred Hunting Hydrophobia inches Inhabitants JOHN killed KING Labour Lady Lakes Land late length Lond LONDON Lord Lord ELLENBOROUGH Love Mad-dog Manor Market ment Miles Name never Number o'er observed Oyster Parish Partridges Penalty pence Person Pheasants Pike Plaintiff Pleasure pounds Price produced Quadrupeds Quantity Rabbits racter Reign remarkable River River Eden River THAMES Rock Salmon says SCOTLAND Season seven Sheep shew Shillings Ship shooting Shore shot sold Species Sport Stone Stream Tail taken thou Thousand tion Trout Turkeys Twenty Water Woodcocks young
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Page 650 - And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat: that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Page 422 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 678 - You shall see him brought to bay, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay ; Tell them, youth, and mirth, and glee, Run a course as well as we, Time, stern huntsman ! who can baulk, Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay.
Page 678 - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page 100 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Page 523 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 290 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 506 - Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Page 242 - Virtue ! when thy clime I seek, Let not my spirit's flight be weak : Let me not, like this feeble thing, With brine still dropping from its wing, Just sparkle in the solar glow And plunge again to depths below. But, when I leave the grosser throng With whom my soul hath dwelt so long, Let me, in that aspiring day, Cast every lingering stain away, And, panting for thy purer air, Fly up at once and fix me there.
Page 99 - 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.