The Complete Angler,: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation,H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 496 pages |
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... worm provokes a snig ; Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly 2 will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd . The tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook ; 1 A small eel . 1 2 An ...
... worm provokes a snig ; Which being fast , if it prove big , The Gotham folly 2 will be found Discreet , ere ta'en she must be drown'd . The tench , physician of the brook , In yon dead hole expects your hook ; 1 A small eel . 1 2 An ...
Page 102
... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm ; or a case - worm ; any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a trout , in a hot evening ; when as you walk by a brook , and ...
... worm , like to and bigger than a gentle ; or a cod - worm ; or a case - worm ; any of these will do very well to fish in such a manner . And after this manner you may catch a trout , in a hot evening ; when as you walk by a brook , and ...
Page 111
... worm , in shape like a clove , or pin with a big head , and sticks close to him and sucks his moisture ; those , I ... worms or lice ; and then , as he grows stronger , so he gets him into swifter and swifter streams , and there lies at ...
... worm , in shape like a clove , or pin with a big head , and sticks close to him and sucks his moisture ; those , I ... worms or lice ; and then , as he grows stronger , so he gets him into swifter and swifter streams , and there lies at ...
Page 112
... worm , or cadis ; and these make the trout bold and lusty . And he is usually fatter and better meat at the end of that month ( May ) than at any time of the year . Now you are to know , that it is observed , that usually the best ...
... worm , or cadis ; and these make the trout bold and lusty . And he is usually fatter and better meat at the end of that month ( May ) than at any time of the year . Now you are to know , that it is observed , that usually the best ...
Page 113
... worm . Pisc . Well , scholar ! you must endure worse luck some- time , or you will never make a good angler . But what say you now ? there is a trout now , and a good one too , if I can but hold him : and two or three turns more will ...
... worm . Pisc . Well , scholar ! you must endure worse luck some- time , or you will never make a good angler . But what say you now ? there is a trout now , and a good one too , if I can but hold him : and two or three turns more will ...
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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.