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
 | 1832 - 336 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...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 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...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray,— We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 340 pages
...thrown upon the water, and the fish would be alarmed whenever a fly was thrown. Thus, Cotton wishes for A day, with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching, sun. Why do fah not willingly haunt very deep water $ Because, even in summer, it is of very low temperature,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the moat deadly killing fly : A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not...gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work la done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray. We '11 prove it iust, with... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 378 pages
...not a scorching sun, A southern gale to 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 baft To make the preying trout our prey. And think ourselves, in such an hour, Happier than those,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...looks as if the old gentleman sometimes thought upon the subject too) There whilst behind some hush we wait The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1837 - 312 pages
...delightful morning for our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion: — 1 A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.' Who can be seated upon the banks of the clear and tranquil Lea, enjoying so delicious a daybreak as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly. A day with not too bright a beam ; A wann, + g A4= 7 k ] + Rkղ v[G ~ r HJ : f H ... 9 ' tvq ~ ܶ 6 uoժ [ ׁU v < ϩ ܿ`Һ 1 рготе it just, with treacherous bait, To make the preying trout our prey ; And think ourselves,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 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... | |
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