The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing. With Notes Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors |
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... catching of Fish , I am not so simple as not to know , that a captious reader may find exceptions against something said of some of these ; and therefore I must entreat him to consider , that experience teaches us to know that several ...
... catching of Fish , I am not so simple as not to know , that a captious reader may find exceptions against something said of some of these ; and therefore I must entreat him to consider , that experience teaches us to know that several ...
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... catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack , and no surer ; for those very flies that use to appear about , and on the water in one month of the year , may the following year come almost a month ...
... catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanack , and no surer ; for those very flies that use to appear about , and on the water in one month of the year , may the following year come almost a month ...
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... catch , and be a prey . The treacherous quill in this slow stream Betrays the hunger of a Bream . And at that nimble ford , no doubt , Your false fly cheats a speckled Trout . When you these creatures wisely choose To practise on ...
... catch , and be a prey . The treacherous quill in this slow stream Betrays the hunger of a Bream . And at that nimble ford , no doubt , Your false fly cheats a speckled Trout . When you these creatures wisely choose To practise on ...
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... catch'd thereby , Is wiser far , alas ! than I. " p . 176 . 35. The Eel , with a distant view of Walthamstow - Ferry , or Bannister's - Water : from an Original Painting by W. Smith . Drawn and Engraved by H. White . Page 183 . 36. Tail ...
... catch'd thereby , Is wiser far , alas ! than I. " p . 176 . 35. The Eel , with a distant view of Walthamstow - Ferry , or Bannister's - Water : from an Original Painting by W. Smith . Drawn and Engraved by H. White . Page 183 . 36. Tail ...
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... catch a brace or two to - morrow , for a friend's breakfast . Doubt not therefore , Sir , but that Angling is an art , and an art worth your learning : the question is rather , whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is ...
... catch a brace or two to - morrow , for a friend's breakfast . Doubt not therefore , Sir , but that Angling is an art , and an art worth your learning : the question is rather , whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is ...
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Page 106 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Page 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Page xxxi - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book, or friend; - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 110 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Page 72 - I know it now, I learned the first part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world began to take hold of me : but you shall, God willing, hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin, sing the first part to the gentlemen with a merry heart, and I'll sing the second when you have done. " THE MILK-MAID'S SONG. Come live with me, and...
Page 74 - With coral clasps and amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 241 - Therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health, and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of — a blessing that money cannot buy — and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Page xxxi - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 245 - Farewell, ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow echo ; Gold, pure clay ; Honour the darling but of one short day...
Page 74 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.