 Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ... - Seite 88von Edmund Waller - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1846 - 512 Seiten
...the following lines by Waller, from a poem on St. James's Park. " The ladies angling in the chrysUl lake Feast on the waters with the prey they take :...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." Having made these preliminary remarks, I shall now proceed to notice the " gentle crafte." That fly-fishing... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 Seiten
...wag in the reign of Charles II. the practice of ladies to angle. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishea glides And plays about the gilded barges' sides :...eyes. They make the fishes and the men their prize. WM i .- H — Poem on St Jamct's Park. As the method of ordering fish-ponds is now very well known,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 Seiten
...practice of ladies to angle. Beneath, a shoal of illver fishes c Hdr« And plays about the gilded bargrs' sides : The ladies, angling in the crystal lake. Feast...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize. WALLKB — I',,,-,., on St Jamefi Park. As the method of ordering fish-ponds is now very well known,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1835 - 348 Seiten
...is yet a pond, it was in the reign of Charles II. the practice of ladies to angle. Beneath, a ghoal of silver fishes glides And plays about the gilded...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize. \Vu,i *'R — Poem on St Jamef* Park. As the method of ordering fish-ponds is now very well known,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 Seiten
...sidei i The ladies, angling in the crystal Ink", Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At uuce victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize. , WALLER — l't>em on St Jamcft Park. Ai the method of ordering fish-ponds is now very well known,... | |
 | 1837 - 612 Seiten
...gallantries that were displayed on its bosom. ' Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays ahout the gilded barges' sides ; The ladies angling in the...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize — ' So says Waller in his poem ' On St. James's Park lately improved by his Majesty.' Before we proceed... | |
 | 1837 - 602 Seiten
...on its bosom. ' Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides j The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize — ' So says Waller in his poem ' On St. James's Park lately unproved by his Majesty.' Before we proceed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 606 Seiten
...sides ; The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At oiice victorious, with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize — ' So says Waller in his poem ' On St. James's Park lately improved by his Majesty.' Before we proceed... | |
 | 508 Seiten
...the following lines by Waller, from a poem on St. James's Park. "The ladies angling in the chrystal lake Feast on the waters with the prey they take :...eyes. They make the fishes and the men their prize." Having made these preliminary remarks, I shall now proceed to notice the " gentle crafte." That fly-fishing... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 Seiten
...the following lines by Waller, from a poem on St. James's Park. "The ladies angling in the chrystal lake Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, Tbey make the fishes and the men their prize." Having made these preliminary remarks, I shall now proceed... | |
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