The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative NotesJohn Major, 1824 - 416 páginas |
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... Fly - fishing , printed just as it was sent me : for I have been so obedient to your desires , as to endure all the praises you have ventured to fix upon me in it . And , when I have thanked you for them , as the effects of an ...
... Fly - fishing , printed just as it was sent me : for I have been so obedient to your desires , as to endure all the praises you have ventured to fix upon me in it . And , when I have thanked you for them , as the effects of an ...
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... fly To hide me from society , Ev'n of my dearest friends , have I In your recesses friendly shade , All my sorrows open laid , And , my most secret woes , entrusted to your privacy ! IX Lord ! would men let me alone ; What an over ...
... fly To hide me from society , Ev'n of my dearest friends , have I In your recesses friendly shade , All my sorrows open laid , And , my most secret woes , entrusted to your privacy ! IX Lord ! would men let me alone ; What an over ...
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... flies for the twelve months of the year ; I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanac , and no surer ; for those very flies that use to appear ...
... flies for the twelve months of the year ; I say , he that follows that rule , shall be as sure to catch fish , and be as wise , as he that makes hay by the fair days in an almanac , and no surer ; for those very flies that use to appear ...
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... flies , proper to the particular place or country ; and doubtless , unless a man makes a fly to counterfeit that very fly in that place , he is like to lose his labour , or much of it : but for the generality , three or four flies neat ...
... flies , proper to the particular place or country ; and doubtless , unless a man makes a fly to counterfeit that very fly in that place , he is like to lose his labour , or much of it : but for the generality , three or four flies neat ...
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... flies so near it , but her mettle makes her careless of danger ; for she then heeds nothing , but makes her nimble pinions cut the fluid air , and so makes her high way over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers , and in her ...
... flies so near it , but her mettle makes her careless of danger ; for she then heeds nothing , but makes her nimble pinions cut the fluid air , and so makes her high way over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers , and in her ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 78 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Página 79 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Página 42 - This day dame Nature seem'd in love ; The lusty sap began to move ; Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines ; And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a...
Página 79 - 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 114 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 43 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest; The groves already did rejoice, In Philomel's triumphing voice; The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled. Joan takes her neat-rubbed pail, and now She trips to milk the sand-red cow ; Where for some sturdy foot-ball swain Joan strokes a syllabub or twain; The fields and gardens were beset With tulips, crocus, violet; And now, though late, the modest rose Did more than half a blush disclose. Thus all looks gay and full of...
Página 215 - Calls my fleeting soul away : Oh ! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace, Chloris ! peace, or singing die, That together you and I To heaven may go ; For all we know Of what the blessed do above, Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Página 43 - Let me live harmlessly ; and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of perch, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness.
Página 118 - And raise my low-pitched thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits, and the noise Of princes
Página 118 - I IN these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice. Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love; Or on that bank, feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty; please my mind. To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers. And then...