... A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, Confirmed by Actual Experience: Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries; the Whole Forming a Complete Museum for the Lovers of that Pleasing and Rational RecreationB. Crosby and Company, 1802 - 185 Seiten |
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... fair regent of the silver tide , Their ranks destroys and spreads their ruin wide : The Duck her offspring to the river leads , And on the destin'd fry insatiate feeds : On fatal wings the pouncing Bittern soars , And And wafts her prey ...
... fair regent of the silver tide , Their ranks destroys and spreads their ruin wide : The Duck her offspring to the river leads , And on the destin'd fry insatiate feeds : On fatal wings the pouncing Bittern soars , And And wafts her prey ...
Seite 142
... fair bosom is the world's exchange . The second river of note is the Severn , which has its beginning in Plinilimmon - hill , in Montgomery- shire , and its end seven miles from Bristol ; wash- ing in that space the walls of Shrewsbury ...
... fair bosom is the world's exchange . The second river of note is the Severn , which has its beginning in Plinilimmon - hill , in Montgomery- shire , and its end seven miles from Bristol ; wash- ing in that space the walls of Shrewsbury ...
Seite 143
... fair flood : Our western parts extol their Willy's fame , And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood . But let me return to the Thames , of which , and . the rivers that fall into it , I shall treat somewhat particularly , as they are ...
... fair flood : Our western parts extol their Willy's fame , And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood . But let me return to the Thames , of which , and . the rivers that fall into it , I shall treat somewhat particularly , as they are ...
Seite 144
... fair day , the wind being in a right corner , pitch your boat almost opposite to the church , and angle in the six or seven feet water , where , as well as at Battersea Bridge , you will meet with plenty of roach and dace . Mortlake ...
... fair day , the wind being in a right corner , pitch your boat almost opposite to the church , and angle in the six or seven feet water , where , as well as at Battersea Bridge , you will meet with plenty of roach and dace . Mortlake ...
Seite 158
... fair wea- ther , when the clouds decay , and dissolve them- selve into air ; but it is otherwise when they are collected out of it . In nubem cogiter aer . VIRGIL . Against heavy rain , every cloud rises bigger than the former , and all ...
... fair wea- ther , when the clouds decay , and dissolve them- selve into air ; but it is otherwise when they are collected out of it . In nubem cogiter aer . VIRGIL . Against heavy rain , every cloud rises bigger than the former , and all ...
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