The Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Being a Bibliographical Record of Its Various Editions and Mutations

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W. Satchell, 1883 - 86 páginas
 

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Página 45 - ... think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Página 72 - Walton and Cotton's 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 45 - 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 72 - WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and 61 Copperplate Illustrations.
Página 74 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Página 57 - The complete angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton : extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood, from original paintings and drawings, by first-rate artists. To which are added, an introductory essay ; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work ; and illustrative notes. Third edition. London, J. Major, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Printed by W. Nicol, 51, Pall Mall. 1835.
Página 10 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Página 16 - ... lays the stress of his arguments upon other men's observations, wherewith he stuffs his indigested octavo ; so brings himself under the angler's censure, and the common calamity of a plagiary, to be pitied (poor man) for his loss of time, in scribbling and transcribing other men's notions. These are the drones that rob the hive, yet flatter the bees they bring them honey.
Página 11 - THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, or the CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION; being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Página 21 - Interspersed with a variety of practical experiments ; learned observations ; beautiful descriptions ; philosophical, moral, and religious reflections ; pieces of innocent mirth and humour ; poetical compositions, etc., so as to render it entertaining to readers of every taste and character whatsoever : with exact representations of all the fish, and the addition of several copper plates, designed as an embellishment to the work. Carefully and correctly published, from the best editions, with a number...

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