The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's RecreationWiley & Putnam, 1847 - 249 pages |
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... natural eloquence , that it has found a most hearty welcome to the table of the scholar , the moralist , and the divine . Very few works have passed through so many editions in England , where it has been illustrated with much care and ...
... natural eloquence , that it has found a most hearty welcome to the table of the scholar , the moralist , and the divine . Very few works have passed through so many editions in England , where it has been illustrated with much care and ...
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... nature , the strength of nerve , the buoyancy of heart and health of mind , which I had lost in my pent library and town duties ; now I need but to open the pages of The Complete Angler , and the stream flows by my side , the birds sing ...
... nature , the strength of nerve , the buoyancy of heart and health of mind , which I had lost in my pent library and town duties ; now I need but to open the pages of The Complete Angler , and the stream flows by my side , the birds sing ...
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... Natural History are adduced , making it on that account a very interesting treatise ; but , very naturally , the question diverges every now and then upon fishing , as compared with other sports . This work seems to have been xviii ...
... Natural History are adduced , making it on that account a very interesting treatise ; but , very naturally , the question diverges every now and then upon fishing , as compared with other sports . This work seems to have been xviii ...
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... natural sense . The Game of Chess ( or , as Mr. Dibdin thinks , the Romance of Jason ) , discovered soon after the Restoration , at Westminster , 1474 : a book in the library of Cambridge , dated 1468 , but the date is doubted for good ...
... natural sense . The Game of Chess ( or , as Mr. Dibdin thinks , the Romance of Jason ) , discovered soon after the Restoration , at Westminster , 1474 : a book in the library of Cambridge , dated 1468 , but the date is doubted for good ...
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... nature , not unaccompanied by a meek piety . Thus : " Huntynge , to myn entent , is to laboryous , for the hunter must alwaye renne and folowe his houndes , travellynge and swetynge full sore . He blowyth tyll his lippes blyster , and ...
... nature , not unaccompanied by a meek piety . Thus : " Huntynge , to myn entent , is to laboryous , for the hunter must alwaye renne and folowe his houndes , travellynge and swetynge full sore . He blowyth tyll his lippes blyster , and ...
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Page 73 - Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 75 - 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.
Page 72 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 69 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Page vii - Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish spears?
Page 73 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 246 - I'll be rather. Would the World now adopt me for her heir ; Would beauty's Queen entitle me the fair ; Fame speak me fortune's minion ; could I
Page 67 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing. insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 106 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.