The Complete Angler,: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation,H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 496 pages |
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... rise to a controversy which is never likely to end . Hooker's book is written with great force of argument , and in a truly christian temper : it contains a wonderful variety of learning and curious information ; and for richness ...
... rise to a controversy which is never likely to end . Hooker's book is written with great force of argument , and in a truly christian temper : it contains a wonderful variety of learning and curious information ; and for richness ...
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... rise , And change their gardens for a Paradise . The Tradescants were the first collectors of natural curiosities in this kingdom ; Ashmole , and Sir Hans Sloane , were the next.-H. 1 Ashmole was , at first , a solicitor in Chancery ...
... rise , And change their gardens for a Paradise . The Tradescants were the first collectors of natural curiosities in this kingdom ; Ashmole , and Sir Hans Sloane , were the next.-H. 1 Ashmole was , at first , a solicitor in Chancery ...
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... rise from old Tithonus ' bed ; The hills and mountains raised from the plains ; The plains extended , level with the ground ; The grounds , divided into sundry veins ; The veins , inclosed with rivers running round ; These rivers ...
... rise from old Tithonus ' bed ; The hills and mountains raised from the plains ; The plains extended , level with the ground ; The grounds , divided into sundry veins ; The veins , inclosed with rivers running round ; These rivers ...
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... rise , and have given her no rest since we came ; sure she will hardly escape all these dogs and men . I am to have the skin if we kill her . Ven . Why , sir , what is the skin worth ? Hunt . It is worth ten shillings , to make gloves ...
... rise , and have given her no rest since we came ; sure she will hardly escape all these dogs and men . I am to have the skin if we kill her . Ven . Why , sir , what is the skin worth ? Hunt . It is worth ten shillings , to make gloves ...
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... rise up to the top again , and there lie soaring till some shadow affrights them again . I say , when they lie on the top of the water , look out the best chub ; which you , setting yourself in a fit place , may very easily see ; and ...
... rise up to the top again , and there lie soaring till some shadow affrights them again . I say , when they lie on the top of the water , look out the best chub ; which you , setting yourself in a fit place , may very easily see ; and ...
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abounds angler artificial fly bait barbel better BEWICK bite body bottom bream breed bridge brown called carp catch caught CHAP CHARLES COTTON chub colour Cotton dace deep Derbyshire discourse dubbing edition eels Engravings especially excellent fishing feather feed FISHERMEN flies fly-fishing frogs Gesner give grayling ground-bait gudgeon hackle hair Hampton hath head HOFLAND honest hook inches IZAAK WALTON J. W. ARCHER JACKSON kill kind LANDELLS live MASON JACKSON miles from London minnow month never observed otter pearch pike and pearch Pisc pond Portrait pounds pounds weight preserved rises river river Dove roach salmon scholar season silk sometimes spawn sport Staffordshire stream subscription tackle tail taken tell tench Thames told trolling trout Viat vols Walton weight weir wings worm yards yellow
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Page 131 - 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. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 98 - 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 6 - Richard, I do not give but lend you my horse ; be sure you be honest and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford. And I do now give you ten groats, to bear your charges to Exeter, and here is ten groats more which I charge you to deliver to your mother, and tell her I send her a bishop's benediction with it, and beg the continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten groats more to carry you on foot to the college ; and so God bless...
Page 285 - Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives : Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
Page 320 - Dear Solitude, the soul's best friend, That man acquainted with himself dost make, And all his Maker's wonders to intend. With thee I here converse at will, And would be -glad to do so still, For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake.
Page 97 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 97 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 207 - ... others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs, with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset, With strangling snare, or windowy net: Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out,wrest, Or curious traitors, sleavesilk flies Bewitch poor fishes
Page 7 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 284 - I would be wise, but that I often see The fox suspected, whilst the ass goes free: I would be fair, but see the fair and proud, Like the bright sun, oft setting in a cloud: I would be poor, but know the humble grass Still trampled on by each unworthy ass : Rich, hated ; wise, suspected; scorn'd, if poor; Great, fear'd; fair, tempted; high, still envy'd more.