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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Página vi
... readers , as well as to Anglers , the portrait of the venerable Walton , engraved by Mr Humphrys , after the original by Housman , in the possession of the Rev. Dr Hawes , Preben- dary of Salisbury , will perhaps prove the most ...
... readers , as well as to Anglers , the portrait of the venerable Walton , engraved by Mr Humphrys , after the original by Housman , in the possession of the Rev. Dr Hawes , Preben- dary of Salisbury , will perhaps prove the most ...
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... Reader in the First , Second , and Fifth • Editions Commendatory Verses , addressed to Walton on the Publica- tion of the Complete Angler THE FIRST DAY : - Containing the First Chapter , being " A Conference betwixt an Angler , a ...
... Reader in the First , Second , and Fifth • Editions Commendatory Verses , addressed to Walton on the Publica- tion of the Complete Angler THE FIRST DAY : - Containing the First Chapter , being " A Conference betwixt an Angler , a ...
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... reader may have a more authentic testimony than my pen can purchase for him , by that of our learned Camden and others . This William Cranmer and his two forenamed sisters had some affinity and a most familiar friendship with Mr Hooker ...
... reader may have a more authentic testimony than my pen can purchase for him , by that of our learned Camden and others . This William Cranmer and his two forenamed sisters had some affinity and a most familiar friendship with Mr Hooker ...
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... reader may , that I , who profess myself artless , should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! but be this to the disadvan tage of the person represented , certain I am it is to the ...
... reader may , that I , who profess myself artless , should presume with my faint light to show forth his life , whose very name makes it illustrious ! but be this to the disadvan tage of the person represented , certain I am it is to the ...
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... Reader , if thou be any or all three ( For these may meet and make a harmony ) , Then praise this author for his useful pains , Whose aim is public good , not private gains . Iz . WA . " In 1642 , George Cranmer's Letter to Hooker ...
... Reader , if thou be any or all three ( For these may meet and make a harmony ) , Then praise this author for his useful pains , Whose aim is public good , not private gains . Iz . WA . " In 1642 , George Cranmer's Letter to Hooker ...
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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.