The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...J. & F. Rivington, 1775 |
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... scholar ‡ . He had also a daughter , married to the above - named Dr. William Hawkins , who had iffue by her a daughter named Anne , and a Athen . Oxon . Vol . I. Col. 305 . + Short account of the life of bishop Ken , by W. Hawkins ...
... scholar ‡ . He had also a daughter , married to the above - named Dr. William Hawkins , who had iffue by her a daughter named Anne , and a Athen . Oxon . Vol . I. Col. 305 . + Short account of the life of bishop Ken , by W. Hawkins ...
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... scholar , and " feen in all the liberal sciences ; as a grammarian , to know how to write , or discourse , of his art in true and fitting terms . He should have sweetness of Speech , to entice others to delight in an exercise so much ...
... scholar , and " feen in all the liberal sciences ; as a grammarian , to know how to write , or discourse , of his art in true and fitting terms . He should have sweetness of Speech , to entice others to delight in an exercise so much ...
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... , as makes me ambi- tious to be your scholar . Pifc . Give me your hand ; from this time forward I will be your mafter , and teach you as S.Wale Inv . Pub According to Act of Parliam ! 2 much 56 The COMPLETE ANGLER . Part I. ...
... , as makes me ambi- tious to be your scholar . Pifc . Give me your hand ; from this time forward I will be your mafter , and teach you as S.Wale Inv . Pub According to Act of Parliam ! 2 much 56 The COMPLETE ANGLER . Part I. ...
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... scholar , there- about we fhall have a bite presently , or not at all have with you Sir ! o'my word I have hold of him . Oh it is a great logger - headed Chub ; come , hang him upon that willow twig , and let's be going . But turn out ...
... scholar , there- about we fhall have a bite presently , or not at all have with you Sir ! o'my word I have hold of him . Oh it is a great logger - headed Chub ; come , hang him upon that willow twig , and let's be going . But turn out ...
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... will tell him one thing for his encou- ragement , that his fortune hath made him happy to be scholar to fuch a master ; a mafter that G knows knows as much both of the nature and breeding of Chap . V. The COMPLETE ANGLER . 81 TROUT ...
... will tell him one thing for his encou- ragement , that his fortune hath made him happy to be scholar to fuch a master ; a mafter that G knows knows as much both of the nature and breeding of Chap . V. The COMPLETE ANGLER . 81 TROUT ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 76 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Página 69 - Nay, stay a little, good Scholar ; I caught my last Trout with a worm, now I will put on a Minnow, and try a quarter of an hour about yonder trees for another, and so walk towards our lodging. Look you, Scholar, thereabout we shall have a bite presently, or not at all : have with you, sir ! o
Página 76 - 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 69 - And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill.
Página 8 - ... airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music...
Página 40 - College, to which he was a liberal benefactor ; in which picture he is drawn leaning on a desk with his Bible before him, and on one hand of him his lines, hooks, and other tackling lying in a round ; and on his other hand are his anglerods of several sorts : and by them this is written,
Página 233 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thee ! sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings...
Página 70 - I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me; 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted...
Página 75 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love. Thy silver dishes for thy meat, As precious as the gods do eat, Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. 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 245 - If I had known it but twenty years ago I would have gained a hundred pounds, only with that bait. I am bound in duty to divulge it to your honour, and not to carry it to my grave with me. I do desire that men of quality should have it that delight in that pleasure. The greedy angler will murmur at me : but for that I care not.