 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
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1860 - 360 pages
...pocket-case, containing materials such as Gay describes as necessary for the art of imitating nature:— " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...shining 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 tribute... | |
 | Book - 1862 - 216 pages
...description of oui- four plates of Flies and Implements of Angling. " To frame the fair-wrought fly, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride...bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy hackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute... | |
 | 518 pages
...pocket-case, containing materials such 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 822 pages
...(Rural Sports, canto i.), which are as true in their directions as they are poetically beautiful :— To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. * Walton's Angler, pt. i. cap. 5. t Let not the angler be put off with the " yellow professor" of the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Who sings a farewell to the parting day. GAY. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. GAY. The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. GAY. He told us that the welkin would be clear When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air. GAY.... | |
 | John Jay Brown - 1876 - 500 pages
...binds j So juut the colors shine in every part. Thnt nature seems to live again in art." And also— " To frame the little animal provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let nature guide theej sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 432 pages
...poet Gay : — " 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...Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining hellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Who sings a farewell to the parting day. GAY. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. GAY. The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. GAY. He told us that the welkin would l>e clear When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air. GAY.... | |
 | James Alexander Henshall - 1881 - 490 pages
...4, 5, and 6 for bait-fishing, and Nos. 2 and 3, for fly-fishing. I CHAPTER XIV. ARTIFICIAL FLIES. " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Kach gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends thegrowing insect proper wings: Bilks of all... | |
 | James Alexander Henshall - 1881 - 494 pages
...Xos. 4, 5, and 6 for bait-fishing, and Nos. 2 and 3, for fly-fishing. CHAPTER XIV. AETIFICIAL FLIES. " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on feinnle pride ; Let nature guide thee. Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require;... | |
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