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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... hook . Jo . FLOUD , Master of Arts . TO THE READER OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER . FIRST , mark the title well : my friend ... hooks . The world the river is ; both you and I , And all mankind , are either fish or fry . If we pretend to reason ...
... hook . Jo . FLOUD , Master of Arts . TO THE READER OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER . FIRST , mark the title well : my friend ... hooks . The world the river is ; both you and I , And all mankind , are either fish or fry . If we pretend to reason ...
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... hook Will prove the safest that is surest took . Nor are we caught alone , but , which is best , We shall be wholesome , and be toothsome dress'd ; Dress'd to be fed , not to be fed upon : And danger of a surfeit here is none . The ...
... hook Will prove the safest that is surest took . Nor are we caught alone , but , which is best , We shall be wholesome , and be toothsome dress'd ; Dress'd to be fed , not to be fed upon : And danger of a surfeit here is none . The ...
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... hook hid in an insect , are Engines of sport would fit the wish O ' th ' epicure , and fill his dish . In this clear stream let fall a grub , And straight take up a Dace or Chub . I ' th ' mud , your worm provokes a snig , Which being ...
... hook hid in an insect , are Engines of sport would fit the wish O ' th ' epicure , and fill his dish . In this clear stream let fall a grub , And straight take up a Dace or Chub . I ' th ' mud , your worm provokes a snig , Which being ...
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... hook , and then to land Some Trout , or Perch , or Pike ; and having done , Sits on a bank , and tells how this was won , And that escaped his hook , which with a wile Did eat the bait , and fisherman beguile . Thus whilst some vex'd ...
... hook , and then to land Some Trout , or Perch , or Pike ; and having done , Sits on a bank , and tells how this was won , And that escaped his hook , which with a wile Did eat the bait , and fisherman beguile . Thus whilst some vex'd ...
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... hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24. In the year 1714 , the very book ...
... hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24. In the year 1714 , the very book ...
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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.