A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling [etc.]T. Plummer, 1808 - 186 Seiten |
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... spawning Time , and most killing Baits . The Salmon Chubb Trout Barbel Grayling Eel Carp Roach Bream Dace Pike Perch Gudgeon Pope Tench Bleak Flounder Minnow Loach Bull - head Sticklebach Guinniad Red Charr , or Welch Torgoch The Guilt ...
... spawning Time , and most killing Baits . The Salmon Chubb Trout Barbel Grayling Eel Carp Roach Bream Dace Pike Perch Gudgeon Pope Tench Bleak Flounder Minnow Loach Bull - head Sticklebach Guinniad Red Charr , or Welch Torgoch The Guilt ...
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... spawn and fry of bred fish , and will probably destroy the superfluity of them . As for pikes , tenches , roaches , perches , & c . they are observed to breed almost in any waters , and very numerously ; but eels never breed in stand ...
... spawn and fry of bred fish , and will probably destroy the superfluity of them . As for pikes , tenches , roaches , perches , & c . they are observed to breed almost in any waters , and very numerously ; but eels never breed in stand ...
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... spawn . Neither the ' habitants of land nor air ( So sure their doom ) the fishy numbers spare ! The swan , fair regent of the silver tide , Their ranks destroys and spreads their ruin wide : The duck her offspring to the river leads ...
... spawn . Neither the ' habitants of land nor air ( So sure their doom ) the fishy numbers spare ! The swan , fair regent of the silver tide , Their ranks destroys and spreads their ruin wide : The duck her offspring to the river leads ...
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... spawn upon that ; then wool again , and then spawn , and so proceed alternately till the pot is filled : it is a most destructive bait in the winter and spring , es- pecially if angled with where salmon are known to spawn ; for there ...
... spawn upon that ; then wool again , and then spawn , and so proceed alternately till the pot is filled : it is a most destructive bait in the winter and spring , es- pecially if angled with where salmon are known to spawn ; for there ...
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... spawning Time , and most killing Baits , & c . THE THE SALMON . HE salmon , according to the opinion of some , breeds in ... spawn in some ri- vers in September , but in the Severn in May . The milter and spawner having performed their ...
... spawning Time , and most killing Baits , & c . THE THE SALMON . HE salmon , according to the opinion of some , breeds in ... spawn in some ri- vers in September , but in the Severn in May . The milter and spawner having performed their ...
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Seite 138 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Seite 141 - Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Seite 179 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Seite 157 - Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Seite 134 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon...
Seite 177 - The same rule holds of a clear place, when all the sky is equally thick, except one clear edge.
Seite 141 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Seite 44 - And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the' umbrageous multitude of leaves.
Seite 137 - Which, by rapacious hunger swallow'd deep, Gives, as you tear it from the bleeding breast Of the weak helpless uncomplaining wretch, Harsh pain, and horror to the tender hand.
Seite 134 - Let no presuming impious railer tax Creative Wisdom , as if aught was form'd In vain, or not for admirable ends.