 A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.  Rural Sports - Page 223by William Barker Daniel - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...these purling fountains, Which we may every year Find when we come a.-fishing here. — Sir W. Raleigh. A day with not too bright a beam, A warm but not a...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray, We 'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 300 pages
...wherein to try, What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly Jailing flie: A day without too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, Master, half our work is done!' pp. 114, 115. This, if not very high poetry, is very agreeable writing. MarvelFs poems are full of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 pages
...or two, Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do A day with not too briglit a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun; A southern...behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, We '11 prove it just, with treacherous bait, To make the preying trout our prey ; And think ourselves... | |
 | John J. Brown - 1857 - 396 pages
...cold day, and then gets nearest the lee side of the water. Sir Humphrey Davy says : " For fly-fishing, A day with not too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun. Also, " never fish with your back to the sun, as your shadow is thrown on the water, and the fish are... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly. A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching son; A southern gale to curl the stream; And, master, half our work is done. Then, whilst behind some... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...says to his father (which looks as if the old gentleman sometimes thought upon the subject too), There whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to...treacherous bait, To make the preying trout our prey. . This argument, and another about fish's being made for " man's pleasure and diet," are all that anglers... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly. 8 A day with not too bright a beam; A warm, but not...curl the stream ; And, master, half our work is done. 9 Then, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, Well prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 394 pages
...wherein to try, What the best Master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly. A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, Master, half our work is done. There whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treach'rous... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...but not a scorching sun; A southern gale -to curl the stream; And, master, half our work is done. 9 Then, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, We'1l prove it just, with treacherous bait, To make the preying trout our prey; 10 And think ourselves,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. ¡' . • . FISHING— Requisites for Successful. A day with not too bright a beam, A warm but not a...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush wo wait, The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
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