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" ... who, alarmed at your approach, rapidly hide themselves beneath the flowers and leaves of the water-lily ; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the... "
Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ... - Page 17
by Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 312 pages
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Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the ..., Volume 22; Volume 72

Hunting - 1828 - 562 pages
...of the water-lily ; and, as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend for the gaudy May-fly, and till, iu pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 24

England - 1828 - 964 pages
...of the water-lily ; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy j\l:iv-!lv, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by...
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The London Magazine

1828 - 746 pages
...of the water-lily; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy May-fly, and till in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24

Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...of the water-lily ; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusebecomes slow and stately in its motions ;. it is applied to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...of the water-lily ; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it -were for the gaudy May-fly, and till in pursuing your amusement in de calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 pages
...water-lily ; and as the seasoa advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, bat better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy May-fly, and lill in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the...
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The London Magazine

English literature - 1828 - 724 pages
...kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy May-fly, and till in pursuing your amusement in the calm and...paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose and woodbiue." Assuredly, this ' Salmonia' is a delightful book, even for a boy to read. It is a rare merit...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 2; Volume 50

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1829 - 592 pages
...of the water-lily; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly, and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the...
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The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting ..., Volume 1

Robert Mudie - Natural history - 1830 - 406 pages
...the waterlilies ;—and, as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy May-fly; and till, in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 14

Great Britain - 1830 - 494 pages
...of the water-lily ; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend, as it were, for the gaudy Mayfly, and till in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening you are serenaded by the...
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