The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing. With Notes Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the AuthorsHenry Washbourne, 1842 - 396 páginas |
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Página viii
... directions for taking fish with a hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24 ...
... directions for taking fish with a hook and line - till Walton's time , having hardly ever been reduced to writing , were propagated from age to age chiefly by tradition : but In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24 ...
Página xii
... directions , How the angler is to make his harnays , or tackle , he is thus instructed to provide a rod : " And how ye shall make your rodde craftly , here I shall teche you . Ye shall kytte between Myghelmas and Candylmas , a fayr ...
... directions , How the angler is to make his harnays , or tackle , he is thus instructed to provide a rod : " And how ye shall make your rodde craftly , here I shall teche you . Ye shall kytte between Myghelmas and Candylmas , a fayr ...
Página xv
... directions for making flies , contained in this book , are , as one would expect , very inartificial : we shall there- fore only add , that the authoress advises the angler to be provided with twelve different sorts ; between which and ...
... directions for making flies , contained in this book , are , as one would expect , very inartificial : we shall there- fore only add , that the authoress advises the angler to be provided with twelve different sorts ; between which and ...
Página xxiii
... directions without much variation , which shall follow . " In his fifth edition , he again mentions the use which he had made of Barker's book , but in different words : " I shall give some other directions for fly - fishing , such as ...
... directions without much variation , which shall follow . " In his fifth edition , he again mentions the use which he had made of Barker's book , but in different words : " I shall give some other directions for fly - fishing , such as ...
Página xxiv
... directions for the making thereof ; with observations for times and seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can ...
... directions for the making thereof ; with observations for times and seasons for the ground- baits and flies , both for day and night , with the dressing ; wherein I take as much delight as in the taking of them ; and to show how I can ...
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Página 106 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Página xxxi - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book, or friend; - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 110 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Página 72 - I know it now, I learned the first part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world began to take hold of me : but you shall, God willing, hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin, sing the first part to the gentlemen with a merry heart, and I'll sing the second when you have done. " THE MILK-MAID'S SONG. Come live with me, and...
Página 74 - With coral clasps and amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Página 241 - Therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health, and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of — a blessing that money cannot buy — and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Página xxxi - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Página 245 - Farewell, ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow echo ; Gold, pure clay ; Honour the darling but of one short day...
Página 74 - 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, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.