 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
 | Stapleton Martin - 1903 - 326 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 sun, There, whilst behind some bush we wait The Scaly People to betray, We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 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...behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, We 'II prove it just, with treacherous bait, To make the preying trout our prey ; And think ourselves... | |
 | Charles Jacob Sembower - 1911 - 144 pages
...another May, We'll recompense an Age of these Foul days in one fine fishing day. * * • # A day without too bright a Beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And (master) half our work is done. 1 The Complete Angler, ed. Hawkins, p. 37. We'll think ourselves in such an hour Happier than those,... | |
 | Charles Jacob Sembower - 1911 - 144 pages
...recompense an Age of these Foul days in one fine fishing day. • • • • A day without too hright a Beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern...curl the stream, And (master) half our work is done. • • • • We'll think ourselves in such an hour Happier than those, though not so high, Who,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 626 pages
...dear and most worthy Friend, Mr Isaac Walton ' remind us of Horace and his Sabine farm : A day without too bright a Beam, A warm, but not a scorching Sun,...curl the Stream, And (master) half our work is done. These four lines are worth the whole of Scarronides, and, doubtless, they will be remembered when the... | |
 | 1922 - 344 pages
...week, 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... | |
 | 1922 - 344 pages
...week, 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... | |
 | 1922 - 344 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 treach'rous bait To make the preying trout our prey: And think ourselves in such an hour Happier than... | |
 | Charles Cotton - 1923 - 432 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. i There whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just with treach'rous... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 492 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 treacherous... | |
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