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" 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 447
by William Barker Daniel - 1812
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - 1826 - 840 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 that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thec ! sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle...
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The Table Book, Volume 1

William Hone - 1827 - 394 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...guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies oi' the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's...
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The Table Book, Volume 1

William Hone - 1827 - 452 pages
...look into the day. You now a more delusive art must try. And tempt r heir hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...female pride: Let nature guide thee ; sometimes golden win The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail. Nor the...
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The Table Book..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1827 - 892 pages
...provide All the gay hues tliat wait on female pride : Let пч1ите guide thee ; sometimes golden w;rt! The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail. Nor ihe dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 19

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...Adoring first the genius of the piara. And night, and all the »tars that gild her tablt throne. n,ii-l The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the table's tail. (jay. SABLE, in heraldry, signifies black ; and, in engraving, is expressed by horizontal...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 6

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving. Milton's Paradise Lost. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings j Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the usher's art. Gay's Rural Sports....
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...ire hardest to be drawn are the tame birds ; as cock, turkey-cock and peacock. Ptucham. The peacKk'i plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Gay. The self-applauding bird the pea-ock see — Mark what a sumptuous Pharisee is he ! Meridian sunbeams...
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The Angler's Guide: Being a Plain and Complete Practical Treatise of the Art ...

Thomas Frederick Salter - 1830 - 438 pages
...for making artificial flies are prettily described by GAT, in his Poem on [Rural Sports, as follows : To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...the dear purchase of the sable's tail ; Each gaudy hird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks, of all colours,...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 11

1846 - 512 pages
...tenderhearted fabulist, Gay, himself a fly-fisher, 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...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 55

1868 - 520 pages
...pocket-case, containing materials snch as Gay describes as necessary for the art of imitating nature : — " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes the tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail ; Each gaudy bird some slender...
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