The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and FishingChatto and Windus, 1875 - 320 páginas |
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... Hawkins says that the supposition that Walton intended to write the Life of Savile , " does very well connect with what the late Mr Des Maizeaux some years since related to a gentleman now deceased ( William Oldys , Norroy King of Arms ) ...
... Hawkins says that the supposition that Walton intended to write the Life of Savile , " does very well connect with what the late Mr Des Maizeaux some years since related to a gentleman now deceased ( William Oldys , Norroy King of Arms ) ...
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... William Hawkins , one of the prebends of Winchester , made him yield a ready assent to the marriage of his daughter Anne to that gentleman , which took place some time before the year 1678. Young Izaak Walton is supposed to have been ...
... William Hawkins , one of the prebends of Winchester , made him yield a ready assent to the marriage of his daughter Anne to that gentleman , which took place some time before the year 1678. Young Izaak Walton is supposed to have been ...
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... William Cranmer . " Mr Garrard seems to have been allied to the family of Walton's son - in - law , Dr Hawkins . Mrs Nelson is supposed to have been of the family of the Reverend Henry Nelson , rector of Haugham , in Lincoln- shire ...
... William Cranmer . " Mr Garrard seems to have been allied to the family of Walton's son - in - law , Dr Hawkins . Mrs Nelson is supposed to have been of the family of the Reverend Henry Nelson , rector of Haugham , in Lincoln- shire ...
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... Hawkins , at Winchester , on the 15th of December 1683 , during a severe frost , which may have hastened the event ... William Simond Higgs , Esq . of the Regent's Park , London , whose youngest son , John Higgs , Esq . of Magdalen Hall ...
... Hawkins , at Winchester , on the 15th of December 1683 , during a severe frost , which may have hastened the event ... William Simond Higgs , Esq . of the Regent's Park , London , whose youngest son , John Higgs , Esq . of Magdalen Hall ...
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... William Hawkins , on the 18th of November 1720 . " In the name of God . Amen . I ISAAC WALTON , Rector of Polshot , & Canon Residentiary of the Church of Sarum , being at this Time , thanks to God , as sound & perfect in understanding ...
... William Hawkins , on the 18th of November 1720 . " In the name of God . Amen . I ISAAC WALTON , Rector of Polshot , & Canon Residentiary of the Church of Sarum , being at this Time , thanks to God , as sound & perfect in understanding ...
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Página 81 - 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 272 - ... Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers.
Página cxiv - 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 37 - ... doubt not therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it; for Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Página 78 - 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 107 - 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 ; " and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Página 78 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Página 23 - ... we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave because nature hath made them of a sour complexion; money-getting men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy or discontented : for these poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy.
Página 79 - Trust me, master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause that our good queen Elizabeth did so often wish herself a milkmaid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares, but sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night: and without doubt, honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin does so. I'll bestow Sir Thomas Overbury's milkmaid's wish upon her, "that she may die in the Spring; and, being dead, may have good store...
Página 53 - My next and last example shall be that under-valuer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind...