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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... pleasure of expressing a hope that he to whose taste and exertions these volumes owe nearly all their value , may derive from them the credit which he so well deserves . N. HARRIS NICOLAS . CONTENTS . MEMOIR OF IZAAK WALTON Notice of ...
... pleasure of expressing a hope that he to whose taste and exertions these volumes owe nearly all their value , may derive from them the credit which he so well deserves . N. HARRIS NICOLAS . CONTENTS . MEMOIR OF IZAAK WALTON Notice of ...
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... pleasure I have taken in your style and conceptions , together with a meditation of the subject you propound , may seem to have cast me into a gentle slumber . But being now awaked , I do herein return you most hearty thanks for the ...
... pleasure I have taken in your style and conceptions , together with a meditation of the subject you propound , may seem to have cast me into a gentle slumber . But being now awaked , I do herein return you most hearty thanks for the ...
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... pleasure , know- ledge , and virtue , into his friends and acquaintance . ' Tis confessed these Eclogues are not so wholly divine as many of his published Meditations , which speak ' his affections to be set upon things that are above ...
... pleasure , know- ledge , and virtue , into his friends and acquaintance . ' Tis confessed these Eclogues are not so wholly divine as many of his published Meditations , which speak ' his affections to be set upon things that are above ...
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... pleasure ; before he could return an answer , they were unawares entered into a living moving lane , made of Shepherds and Pilgrims , who had that morning measured many miles to be the eye- witnesses of that day's pleasure . This lane ...
... pleasure ; before he could return an answer , they were unawares entered into a living moving lane , made of Shepherds and Pilgrims , who had that morning measured many miles to be the eye- witnesses of that day's pleasure . This lane ...
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... pleasure ; and this discourse boasts of no more , for I hate to promise much and fail . " may here He dedicated the work to John Offley , of Madely Manor , in Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some ...
... pleasure ; and this discourse boasts of no more , for I hate to promise much and fail . " may here He dedicated the work to John Offley , of Madely Manor , in Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some ...
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Página 79 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Página 127 - 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 cxii - 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 102 - 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.