To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's... Rural Sports - Page 447by William Barker Daniel - 1812Full view - About this book
| John Gay - 1854 - 300 pages
...look into the day : You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the % require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.... | |
| William Cartwright - 1854 - 192 pages
...are ; Till in a mift of dark decay The dreamer vanifh quite away." BISHOP KING. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...that wait on female pride ; Let nature guide thee ; fometimes golden-wire The fliining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle muft... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 pages
...become that useful feather called the yellow dun," We sum up with the elegant lines of Gay : — ' ' To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, such as see it, which are not many I assure 3'ou, may think me a great master in the art of angling... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pages
...and become that useful feather called the yellow dun." We sum up with the elegant lines of Gay :— " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, such as see it, which are not many I assure you, may think me a great master in the art of angling:... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the eurious fly. HOW TO HAEE THE AETIFICIAL FLT. d ; The rustic youth, brown with meridian toil, Healthful...strong ; lull as the summer-rose Blown by prevailing belKes of the fly require : The peaeoek's plumes thy taekle must not fail, Nor the dear purehase of... | |
| John J. Brown - 1857 - 396 pages
...So just the colors shine in every part. That nature seems to live again in art." And also — l\ ** To frame the little animal provide All the gay hues...gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the glowing insect proper wings ; Silks of all colors must their aid impart, And every fur promote the... | |
| Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1858 - 400 pages
...tender-hearted fabulist, Gay, himself a flyfisher, are brought to bear : " To frame the fur-wrought fly, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride...gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the glowing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fair promote the... | |
| Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1858 - 416 pages
...brought to bear : " To frame the fur-wrought fly, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride j Let nature guide thee. Sometimes golden wire The shining...bird some slender tribute brings, . And lends the glowing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fair promote the... | |
| Henry William Herbert - 1859 - 586 pages
...nature guide thee — sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require : The peacock's plume thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of...gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the ghnving insect proper wings. Silks of all colors must their aid impart; And every fur promote the fislier's... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 918 pages
...the cnriou» fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hue» that wait on female pnde : Let nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plume» thy tackle mu»t not fail. Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some... | |
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