The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingL.A. Lewis, 1839 - 396 Seiten |
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... known I can be serious at seasonable times , yet the whole Discourse is , or rather was , a picture of my own disposition , especially in such days and times as I have laid aside business , and gone a - fishing with ho- nest Nat . and R ...
... known I can be serious at seasonable times , yet the whole Discourse is , or rather was , a picture of my own disposition , especially in such days and times as I have laid aside business , and gone a - fishing with ho- nest Nat . and R ...
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... known , or may be said of it , but I undertake to acquaint the reader with many things that are not usually known to every Angler ; and I shall leave gleanings , and observations enough to be made out of the experience of all that love ...
... known , or may be said of it , but I undertake to acquaint the reader with many things that are not usually known to every Angler ; and I shall leave gleanings , and observations enough to be made out of the experience of all that love ...
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... known by the sign of the Harrow . " || Now the old timber - house at the south - west corner of Chancery - lane , in Fleet - street , till within these few years , was known by that sign : it is therefore beyond doubt that Walton lived ...
... known by the sign of the Harrow . " || Now the old timber - house at the south - west corner of Chancery - lane , in Fleet - street , till within these few years , was known by that sign : it is therefore beyond doubt that Walton lived ...
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... known , but that her Christian name was Rachell : " Aug. 25 , 1640. Rachell wife of Isaack Walton was buried . " By this lady he had two sons : Henry , baptized October 12 , and buried October 17 , 1632 ; and another son of the same ...
... known , but that her Christian name was Rachell : " Aug. 25 , 1640. Rachell wife of Isaack Walton was buried . " By this lady he had two sons : Henry , baptized October 12 , and buried October 17 , 1632 ; and another son of the same ...
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... known Gervase Markham , as part of his Country Contentments , or Hus- bandman's Recreations , since he confesses , that the substance of his book was originally in rhyme . Barker's Art of Angling , printed in 12mo . , in 1651 , and ...
... known Gervase Markham , as part of his Country Contentments , or Hus- bandman's Recreations , since he confesses , that the substance of his book was originally in rhyme . Barker's Art of Angling , printed in 12mo . , in 1651 , and ...
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Seite 75 - Thy silver dishes for thy meat As precious as the gods do eat, Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning : If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my Love.
Seite 10 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Seite 74 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Seite 112 - 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.
Seite 108 - 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.
Seite 111 - And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits and the noise Of princes' Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook...
Seite 246 - Go ! let the diving negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek ; We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass ; And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears.
Seite 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...
Seite 76 - ... 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.
Seite 255 - FAREWELL, thou busy world ! and may We never meet again : Here I can eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more good in one short day, Than he, who his whole age out-wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears.