The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingW. & R. Chambers, 1833 - 328 páginas |
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... appears , was Anne , the daughter of Thomas Ken , of Furnival's Inn , and sister of Thomas , afterwards Dr Ken , Bishop of Bath and Wells , one of the seven that were sent to the Tower , and who , at the Revolution , was deprived , and ...
... appears , was Anne , the daughter of Thomas Ken , of Furnival's Inn , and sister of Thomas , afterwards Dr Ken , Bishop of Bath and Wells , one of the seven that were sent to the Tower , and who , at the Revolution , was deprived , and ...
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... appears by the following fonamental inscription in the chapel of Our Lady , in the cathedral church of Worcester : EXTERRIS D. M. S. HERE LYETH BURIED so much as could dye of ANNE , THE WIFE OF IZAAK WALTON ; who was a Woman of ...
... appears by the following fonamental inscription in the chapel of Our Lady , in the cathedral church of Worcester : EXTERRIS D. M. S. HERE LYETH BURIED so much as could dye of ANNE , THE WIFE OF IZAAK WALTON ; who was a Woman of ...
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... appears in almost every line of his writings , unwilling to conceal from the world those assistances which his long ... appear , from a perusal of this excellent piece , which , whether we consider the elegant simplicity of the style ...
... appears in almost every line of his writings , unwilling to conceal from the world those assistances which his long ... appear , from a perusal of this excellent piece , which , whether we consider the elegant simplicity of the style ...
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... appears by a variety of evidence , that the person meant by these initials was one Leonard Mascall , an author who wrote on planting and grafting , and also on cattle . Vide infra , chap . ix . Approved Experiments touching Fish and ...
... appears by a variety of evidence , that the person meant by these initials was one Leonard Mascall , an author who wrote on planting and grafting , and also on cattle . Vide infra , chap . ix . Approved Experiments touching Fish and ...
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... appears to have been printed at Westminster , by Wynkyn de Worde , 1496 , in a small folio , containing a treatise ... appearing by the colophon to have been printed there , in 1486 , and , as it seems , with Caxton's letter . * Wynkyn ...
... appears to have been printed at Westminster , by Wynkyn de Worde , 1496 , in a small folio , containing a treatise ... appearing by the colophon to have been printed there , in 1486 , and , as it seems , with Caxton's letter . * Wynkyn ...
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Página 112 - 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.
Página 114 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...
Página 88 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: 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...
Página 86 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago. And the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were oldfashioned poetry, but choicely good; I think much better than the strong lines which are now in fashion in this critical age.
Página 236 - 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.
Página 87 - Slippers, lined choicely 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.
Página 46 - But the nightingale,' another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Página 85 - And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill.
Página 217 - In the loose rhymes of every poetaster — 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.
Página 88 - 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.