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 xlix
... season the six hotter months . Now for the Art of catching fish , that is to say , How to make a man that was none , to be an angler by a book ; he that undertakes it , shall undertake a harder task than Mr. Hales , a most valiant and ...
... season the six hotter months . Now for the Art of catching fish , that is to say , How to make a man that was none , to be an angler by a book ; he that undertakes it , shall undertake a harder task than Mr. Hales , a most valiant and ...
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... seasons , as namely the Leverock , the Titlark , the little Linnet , and the honest Robin , that loves mankind both alive and dead . But the Nightingale , another of my airy creatures , breathes such sweet loud music out of her little ...
... seasons , as namely the Leverock , the Titlark , the little Linnet , and the honest Robin , that loves mankind both alive and dead . But the Nightingale , another of my airy creatures , breathes such sweet loud music out of her little ...
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... season from about the middle of May , till the middle of February ; but are best in winter . At mid - water , and at bottom , use a float ; at top , either dib , or , if you have room , use the fly - line , as for Trout . They are so ...
... season from about the middle of May , till the middle of February ; but are best in winter . At mid - water , and at bottom , use a float ; at top , either dib , or , if you have room , use the fly - line , as for Trout . They are so ...
Page 57
... seasons ; for it is observed , that he comes in and goes out of season with the stag and buck . Gesner says , his name is of a German offspring ; and says he is a fish that feeds clean and purely , in the swiftest streams , and on the ...
... seasons ; for it is observed , that he comes in and goes out of season with the stag and buck . Gesner says , his name is of a German offspring ; and says he is a fish that feeds clean and purely , in the swiftest streams , and on the ...
Page 58
... season they cut very white : and none of these have been known to be caught with an angle , unless it were one that was caught by Sir George Hast- ings , an excellent angler , and now with God : and he hath told me , he thought THAT ...
... season they cut very white : and none of these have been known to be caught with an angle , unless it were one that was caught by Sir George Hast- ings , an excellent angler , and now with God : and he hath told me , he thought THAT ...
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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"?