The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and FishingChatto and Windus, 1875 - 525 páginas |
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... 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 Falconer , and a Hunter , each commending his Recreation " 19 PAGE ...
... 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 Falconer , and a Hunter , each commending his Recreation " 19 PAGE ...
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... verses : " TO MY APPROVED AND MUCH - RESPECTED FRIEND , 12. WA . To thee , thou more than thrice beloved friend , I too unworthy of so great a bliss ; These harsh - tuned lines I here to thee commend , Thou being cause it is now as it ...
... verses : " TO MY APPROVED AND MUCH - RESPECTED FRIEND , 12. WA . To thee , thou more than thrice beloved friend , I too unworthy of so great a bliss ; These harsh - tuned lines I here to thee commend , Thou being cause it is now as it ...
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... verses to his " dear brother - in - law , Mr Is . Walton , on his Complete Angler , " 7 which were prefixed to the second edition of that work , in 1655. John Floud , the second son , was under twenty - eight years of age at the death ...
... verses to his " dear brother - in - law , Mr Is . Walton , on his Complete Angler , " 7 which were prefixed to the second edition of that work , in 1655. John Floud , the second son , was under twenty - eight years of age at the death ...
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... verses on the subject , which , with Herbert's reply , were printed by Walton in his Life of Donne . They are full of the quaint conceits with which the poetry of the time abounded , and however agreeable to the taste of that age , they ...
... verses on the subject , which , with Herbert's reply , were printed by Walton in his Life of Donne . They are full of the quaint conceits with which the poetry of the time abounded , and however agreeable to the taste of that age , they ...
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... verses were composed during the lifetime of the former , there is reason to believe that some other alterations were made for the purpose of adapting them to more recent circumstances . Two more productions of Walton's pen , about this ...
... verses were composed during the lifetime of the former , there is reason to believe that some other alterations were made for the purpose of adapting them to more recent circumstances . Two more productions of Walton's pen , about this ...
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