Supplement to the Rural SportsB. & R. Crosby, 1813 - 507 Seiten |
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... fall not within the compass of every one's ability to pursue , being , as it were , only en- tailed on great Persons and vast Estates ; for if meaner Fortunes seek to enjoy them , Actæon's Fable often proves a true Story , and those ...
... fall not within the compass of every one's ability to pursue , being , as it were , only en- tailed on great Persons and vast Estates ; for if meaner Fortunes seek to enjoy them , Actæon's Fable often proves a true Story , and those ...
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... with rational persons heightens it ; and if it be delightful the charge of Melancholy falls upon that score , and if Example ( which is the best proof ) may sway any thing , I know no sort of Men less subject to Melancholy than Anglers ; ...
... with rational persons heightens it ; and if it be delightful the charge of Melancholy falls upon that score , and if Example ( which is the best proof ) may sway any thing , I know no sort of Men less subject to Melancholy than Anglers ; ...
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... falling Dewes begin , The gamesome Trout then shows her silverie skin , As wantonly beneath the wave she glides , Watching the buzzing Flies , that never blin , Then , dropt with pearle and golde , displays her sides , While she with ...
... falling Dewes begin , The gamesome Trout then shows her silverie skin , As wantonly beneath the wave she glides , Watching the buzzing Flies , that never blin , Then , dropt with pearle and golde , displays her sides , While she with ...
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... fall , Baits quick and dead to bring them to the bit , Fine lead and Quils , with Corks both great and small , Knife , file , and thread , and little Basket fit , Plummet to sound the depth of Clay and Sand , With Pole and Net to bring ...
... fall , Baits quick and dead to bring them to the bit , Fine lead and Quils , with Corks both great and small , Knife , file , and thread , and little Basket fit , Plummet to sound the depth of Clay and Sand , With Pole and Net to bring ...
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... falls into the Thames a little below Blackwall . The Lovers of Angling , to whom this Treatise is familiar , are apprised , that the Art of fishing with the Fly is not discussed with sufficient Accuracy ; the few directions that are ...
... falls into the Thames a little below Blackwall . The Lovers of Angling , to whom this Treatise is familiar , are apprised , that the Art of fishing with the Fly is not discussed with sufficient Accuracy ; the few directions that are ...
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2d Edit Account Acres Angler Animal Anno appears Art of Angling Bait Birds Bite Boat caught COLONSAY Colour Country Defendant died Dishes ditto Dogs Earl Eggs ENGLAND Expence FAWDON feet Fish Fishery Fishmongers five Food four Fowl fyshe Game Gamekeeper Gentleman Ground Gudgeon Guineas Hare haue Hook Horse Hounds Hours House Hundred Hunting Hydrophobia inches Inhabitants John killed KING Labour Lady Lakes Land late length lived Lond LONDON Lord Love Mad-dog Manor Market Miles Name never Number o'er observed Oyster Parish Partridges Penalty pence Person Pheasants Pike Plaintiff Pleasure Possession pounds Price produced Quadrupeds Quantity Rabbits Reign remarkable River River Eden River THAMES Salmon says SCOTLAND Season seven Sheep shew Shillings Ship shooting Shore shot sold Species Sport Stone Stream Tail taken THAMES thou Thousand tion Trout Turkeys Twenty Water WILLIAM Woodcocks WORM young
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Seite 450 - And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat: that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Seite 470 - You shall see him brought to bay ; " Waken, lords and ladies gay! " Louder, louder, chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay ! Tell them, youth, and mirth, and glee, Run a course as well as we ; Time, stern huntsman ! who can baulk, Staunch as hound, and fleet as hawk ? Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay...
Seite 79 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: 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...
Seite 73 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 208 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Seite 353 - Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Seite 78 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Seite 5 - The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also -will go with thee.
Seite 297 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Seite 63 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t" embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil, Purple narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass and azure culver-keys.