The Rail and the Rod; Or, Tourist Angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Around London ...H. Cox, 1867 |
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... amongst the rodmen for their favourite " silvery Lea " -that it was no unusual thing for half a dozen youngsters , and even men far advanced in years , to meet at some appointed place on the previous evening and cheerfully trudge down ...
... amongst the rodmen for their favourite " silvery Lea " -that it was no unusual thing for half a dozen youngsters , and even men far advanced in years , to meet at some appointed place on the previous evening and cheerfully trudge down ...
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... amongst weeds and reeds full below the tell - tale sky - line , which otherwise makes his every movement observable . In the mere survey of the Lea and its tributaries , and that of the Thames and the Trent , we found a pair of Fagg's ...
... amongst weeds and reeds full below the tell - tale sky - line , which otherwise makes his every movement observable . In the mere survey of the Lea and its tributaries , and that of the Thames and the Trent , we found a pair of Fagg's ...
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... amongst its occupants . We now arrive at one of the sharpest turns and returns in the Lea , and equally so both for length and acuteness . At the head of it , part of the stream runs off at a right angle into the aqueduct , which we ...
... amongst its occupants . We now arrive at one of the sharpest turns and returns in the Lea , and equally so both for length and acuteness . At the head of it , part of the stream runs off at a right angle into the aqueduct , which we ...
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... amongst the oldest inhabitants of the Lea , that wherever a stretch of still water , such as occasioned by locks , presents itself , there the rod may ply its pursuit without molestation , or the imposition of a fee . But this view of ...
... amongst the oldest inhabitants of the Lea , that wherever a stretch of still water , such as occasioned by locks , presents itself , there the rod may ply its pursuit without molestation , or the imposition of a fee . But this view of ...
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... amongst the subscribers . From the fourth field we pass over " the W. Overshot " into a plantation all round which is fishable , and in which the trees and saplings afford effectual cover for the sly and cautious dibber . It is ...
... amongst the subscribers . From the fourth field we pass over " the W. Overshot " into a plantation all round which is fishable , and in which the trees and saplings afford effectual cover for the sly and cautious dibber . It is ...
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The Rail and the Rod; Or, Tourist Angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters ... John Greville Fennell No preview available - 2019 |
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afford amongst ancient angler angling bait banks barbel beautiful Beccles boat bottom bream broads Broxbourne carp Castle caught Chertsey chub church close cottage course dace Darenth Datchet deep depth Distance from London east eels excellent FARES:-First-class Farm Ferry fish fishermen fishery flows grounds gudgeon Hall handsome Higham Ferrers Hill hole hook jack lake latter likewise Lock Lord meadows Medway miles Mill navigable neighbourhood nets Norfolk opposite Ouse Pangbourne Park passes perch perch fishing picturesque piece of water pike piscatorial plenty ponds pool preserved pretty punt railway bridge reach Return-First-class rises river river Lea roach fishing roach swim runs salmon scenery season seat Second shallow side sport spot Station Master Stort Stour stream Streatley taken tench Thames town trees tributary trout Tunbridge village Waveney weight weir Wood Wraysbury Yare Yarmouth
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Page 4 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 10 - He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 7 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 34 - ... freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward, in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which...
Page 51 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties...
Page 61 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 24 - Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love...
Page 61 - O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Page 34 - ... -should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can...
Page 34 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own: whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...