The Autobiography of a FishermanDoubleday, Page, 1927 - 202 páginas |
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Página 81 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Página 81 - To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, The colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 53 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
Página 187 - Nay, let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our estates, that would give the greatest part of it to be healthful and cheerful like us, who, with the expense of a little money, have eat and drank and laughed and angled and sung and slept securely ; and rose next day, and cast away care, and sung and laughed and angled again ; which are blessings rich men cannot purchase with all their money.
Página 81 - WHILE flowing rivers yield a blameless sport Shall live the name of Walton : Sage benign ! Whose pen, the mysteries of the rod and line Unfolding, did not fruitless exhort To reverend watching of each still report That Nature utters from her rural shrine. Meek, nobly versed in simple discipline, He found the longest summer day too short, To his loved pastime given by sedgy Lee, Or down the tempting maze of Shawford Brook.
Página 79 - Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I ? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Give me again all that was there, Give me the sun that shone ! Give me the eyes, give me the soul, Give me the lad that's gone...
Página 165 - I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.
Página 67 - O sir, doubt not but that angling is an art. Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly ? a trout that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold ! and yet I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow for a friend's breakfast. Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art...
Página 32 - And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other ; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
Página 82 - ANGLER." WHILE flowing rivers yield a blameless sport, Shall live the name of Walton : Sage benign ! Whose pen, the mysteries of the rod and line Unfolding, did not fruitlessly exhort To reverend watching of each still report That Nature utters from her rural shrine.