The Practice of Angling: Particularly as Regards Ireland, Band 1W. Curry, jun.,, 1845 |
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Seite 33 - For the want of a nail the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; for the want of a horse the rider was lost; for the want of a rider the battle was lost; for the want of a battle the kingdom was lost — and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Seite 189 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Seite 62 - ... little, but observe that after rising he may possibly drop down a yard or so, in which case, you must lengthen your line a little, or fall down a step ; if he should not then take, let him alone for about five minutes, and change your fly to one of a somewhat smaller size, and not so gaudy as the one you commenced with ; try him again, but do not dog him ; three or four casts will determine whether he will take or not. If the river is narrow, and that you can get over to the off side, throw from...
Seite 172 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render liable to any Penalty any Person who shall be able satisfactorily to prove that he was prevented by Floods, Storm, or Stress of Weather from removing such Leaders or making such Openings as aforesaid, during the Continuance of such Prevention, but no longer.
Seite 315 - The small trout, the salmon-fry, a small herring, the tail of an eel spangled and tinselled, are excellent" [bait, as well as the frog] ; "so is a small-sized jack, and sometimes a good-sized one; so is a goldfinch, a swallow, or a yellow» hammer." And so on with the " so is" ad infinilum. No doubt, if a man was to put on a horse's head, or a sheep's paunch, he would kill some extraordinary beast or another, that the local paper would bray about, and a set of semi-barbarians wash down with whiskey-and-water....
Seite vi - Paley was ardently attached to this amusement; so much so, that when the Bishop of Durham inquired of him, when one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humour, " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over," as if this were ab*siness of his life.
Seite 306 - There is no breeze upon the fern, Nor ripple on the lake, Upon her eyry nods the erne, The deer has sought the brake ; The small birds will not sing aloud, The springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill.
Seite 314 - Exactly. It is proposed by the Epicurean, and seconded by the O'Gorman, that the pike should be destroyed in every practicable way, and that it is not a kind of fishing a man can care about. Carried unanimously. Again says our friend — " The small trout, the salmon-fry, a small herring, the tail of an eel spangled and tinselled, are excellent" [bait, as well as the frog] ; " so is a small-sized jack, and sometimes a good-sized one; so is a goldfinch, a swallow, or a yellow* hammer.'' And so on...
Seite 148 - O'Gorman's Practice of Angling, wherein he shows very plainly his intense dislike of the ' newly invented hook . . . with an eye in the shank. It is another Scotch invention, and as to its usefulness may be placed on a par with the newly invented method of breeding salmon. Any fly tied on a hook of this description must be clumsy.