Littell's Living Age, Volume 17Living Age Company Incorporated, 1848 |
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Page 9
... success of the angler , in by far the greater proportion of cases , does not depend upon the resemblance which sub- sists between his artificial fly and the natural insect . This statement is no doubt greatly at variance with the ...
... success of the angler , in by far the greater proportion of cases , does not depend upon the resemblance which sub- sists between his artificial fly and the natural insect . This statement is no doubt greatly at variance with the ...
Page 10
... success than if they used so - called - as they name them - imitations . The majority of mankind are mad on one subject or another . Per- haps the majority of animals are equally so . These mad fly - fishers are successful , no doubt ...
... success than if they used so - called - as they name them - imitations . The majority of mankind are mad on one subject or another . Per- haps the majority of animals are equally so . These mad fly - fishers are successful , no doubt ...
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... success - wisest of beasts , with slow and solemn steps - and ful days , when a gentle rippling breeze was camelopard , " tall as the mast of some huge ammi- ral , " o'ertopping the young trees . These were 12 THE ART OF ANGLING .
... success - wisest of beasts , with slow and solemn steps - and ful days , when a gentle rippling breeze was camelopard , " tall as the mast of some huge ammi- ral , " o'ertopping the young trees . These were 12 THE ART OF ANGLING .
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... success , much loss of time and of money , for cheap things are always the most expensive in the end.-p. 70 . Supposing , however , that the May - fly is un- known in Scotland , and that being so , its imitation is a nondescript with ...
... success , much loss of time and of money , for cheap things are always the most expensive in the end.-p. 70 . Supposing , however , that the May - fly is un- known in Scotland , and that being so , its imitation is a nondescript with ...
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... success at all seasons on any of our lakes and streams . I am talking of diversities , and , in doing so , allude to the color , shape , and material of the imitation employed -not at all to its size ; that I leave to be wholly ...
... success at all seasons on any of our lakes and streams . I am talking of diversities , and , in doing so , allude to the color , shape , and material of the imitation employed -not at all to its size ; that I leave to be wholly ...
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Page 344 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks...
Page 90 - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Page 344 - Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of...
Page 148 - Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her eavthly horizon, As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning.
Page 148 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heir-loom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations.
Page 298 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Page 104 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie, Some random truths he can impart : The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Page 65 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 130 - When it raineth, it is his penthouse; when it bloweth, it is his tent; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose; in winter he can wrap it close; at all times he can use it; never heavy, never cumbersome.
Page 341 - Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.