The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing--James Smith, 1822 - 383 páginas |
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... whose instruction or amusement they were undertaken , nor have they in any instance filled so independent a sta- tion in literature , as The Complete Angler has done . It would probably never have occurred to any mind , ADVERTISEMENT ...
... whose instruction or amusement they were undertaken , nor have they in any instance filled so independent a sta- tion in literature , as The Complete Angler has done . It would probably never have occurred to any mind , ADVERTISEMENT ...
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... tion of Isaac Walton , and John Mason , hosier ; whence we may conclude , that half a shop was sufficient for the business of Walton . A citizen of this age would almost as much disdain to admit of a tenant for half his shop , as a ...
... tion of Isaac Walton , and John Mason , hosier ; whence we may conclude , that half a shop was sufficient for the business of Walton . A citizen of this age would almost as much disdain to admit of a tenant for half his shop , as a ...
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... tion , might sometimes tempt him out with his friends , honest Nat . and R. Roe , whose loss he so pathetically mentions , 7 to spend an afternoon there . In the year 1662 , he was by death deprived of the solace and com- fort of a good ...
... tion , might sometimes tempt him out with his friends , honest Nat . and R. Roe , whose loss he so pathetically mentions , 7 to spend an afternoon there . In the year 1662 , he was by death deprived of the solace and com- fort of a good ...
Página xii
... tion to the writer , than that of Doctor Donne . " 3 Sir Henry Wotton dying in 1639 , Walton was importuned by bishop King to undertake the writing his Life also ; and , as it should seem by a circumstance mentioned in the margin , it ...
... tion to the writer , than that of Doctor Donne . " 3 Sir Henry Wotton dying in 1639 , Walton was importuned by bishop King to undertake the writing his Life also ; and , as it should seem by a circumstance mentioned in the margin , it ...
Página xiv
... tion of one known , to the curious , by the name of the " Book of St. Alban's , " it appearing by the colophon to have been printed there , in 1486 , and , as it seems , with Caxton's letter . Wynkyn de Worde's impression has the ...
... tion of one known , to the curious , by the name of the " Book of St. Alban's , " it appearing by the colophon to have been printed there , in 1486 , and , as it seems , with Caxton's letter . Wynkyn de Worde's impression has the ...
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Página 68 - 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.
Página 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Página 66 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Página 68 - Fair lined slippers 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 105 - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Página xxvii - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a...
Página 69 - 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.
Página xxi - 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.
Página 237 - Here's no fantastic masque, nor dance, But of our kids that frisk and prance; Nor wars are seen, Unless upon the green Two harmless lambs are butting one the other...
Página 66 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?