 | George Dawson - 1876 - 312 Seiten
... er ROD AND REEL TROUT AND SALMON. BY GEORGE DAWSON. He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, bot he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;... | |
 | George Christopher Davies - 1876 - 226 Seiten
...born so ; I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring and observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 Seiten
...born so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only...will prove to be like virtue, a reward to itself. VEN. Sir, I am now become so full of expectation, that I long much to have you proceed, and in the... | |
 | James Alexander Henshall - 1881 - 494 Seiten
...become a bait-fisher, it is not every one that can learn the fly-fisher's art; for, continues Walton, " he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practiced it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like... | |
 | William Mathews - 1881 - 358 Seiten
...found it in practice the most tedious of all ways of killing time. Honest Izaak justly declares that " he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself." Markham, in his " Country Contentments," goes still further, and quaintly assures us that " the angler... | |
 | James Alexander Henshall - 1881 - 480 Seiten
...of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practiced it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so...will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself." CHAPTER XIX. CONDITIONS WHICH GOVERN THE BITING OF FISH. "So I have observed, that if it be a cloudy... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1881 - 984 Seiten
...born so. I mean with inclinations to it. though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, and observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity... | |
 | 1881 - 978 Seiten
...born so. I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, and observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 986 Seiten
...so. I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but lie that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, and observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity... | |
 | 1883 - 356 Seiten
...observing wit, but he must bring a large n^asure of hope aud patience, and a love and propensity * • the art itself ; but having once got and practised...will prove to be like virtue, a reward to itself." — / .ml, Walton. " The black bass are unquestionably as fine a fish for angling purposes as any we... | |
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... 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 somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though... 
