Fish-tails, and Some True OnesE.Arnold, 1897 - 255 Seiten |
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... stone : at which sarcasm I could not repress an angry flush as I tried a shorter cast with a new fly . In earlier years I did not despise the bent pin when I used to go out with my nurse , or my brother , and fish for sticklebacks in ...
... stone : at which sarcasm I could not repress an angry flush as I tried a shorter cast with a new fly . In earlier years I did not despise the bent pin when I used to go out with my nurse , or my brother , and fish for sticklebacks in ...
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... stone jar and cigar - box business in a punt , do you ? " said my host . " Poor young man ! Angling is an art , and there is no doubt a certain amount of skill necessary , but what you chiefly need is imagination . Look at that Turner ...
... stone jar and cigar - box business in a punt , do you ? " said my host . " Poor young man ! Angling is an art , and there is no doubt a certain amount of skill necessary , but what you chiefly need is imagination . Look at that Turner ...
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... stone bridge , rather in want of repair , and perfectly mirrored in the water ; over- arching trees embowered it , and made a pretty picture , but I am not aware that we observed it . Willie said it was a nuisance that we could not fish ...
... stone bridge , rather in want of repair , and perfectly mirrored in the water ; over- arching trees embowered it , and made a pretty picture , but I am not aware that we observed it . Willie said it was a nuisance that we could not fish ...
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... stone , —you shudder , quite naturally , -and then I , being the strongest , by a stout effort directed the wicked engine of destruc- tion towards the fish dozing so unsuspectingly below . There was a most prodigious splash , a terrible ...
... stone , —you shudder , quite naturally , -and then I , being the strongest , by a stout effort directed the wicked engine of destruc- tion towards the fish dozing so unsuspectingly below . There was a most prodigious splash , a terrible ...
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... stone . " So much for the geography . Well , the executive power being out of the way , we sallied forth in our fives - shoes , armed with rods ( as a blind to the governess , I suppose ) , a saloon pistol , an old wooden bucket , a ...
... stone . " So much for the geography . Well , the executive power being out of the way , we sallied forth in our fives - shoes , armed with rods ( as a blind to the governess , I suppose ) , a saloon pistol , an old wooden bucket , a ...
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Seite 7 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Seite 105 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 35 - To-morrow is saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day...
Seite 241 - No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A...
Seite 244 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 46 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Seite 130 - NOT a breath of air Ruffles the bosom of this leafy glen. From the brook's margin, wide around, the trees Are steadfast as the rocks ; the brook itself, Old as the hills that feed it from afar, Doth rather deepen than disturb the calm Where all things else are still and motionless.
Seite 63 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Seite 191 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Seite 113 - Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass— at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent.