Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All NationsJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 335 páginas |
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... says , " In a bas- relief from Khorsabad representing a naval engagement , or the siege of a city on the sea - coast , we have the god nearly as described by Berossus . To the body of a man as far as the waist is joined the tail of a ...
... says , " In a bas- relief from Khorsabad representing a naval engagement , or the siege of a city on the sea - coast , we have the god nearly as described by Berossus . To the body of a man as far as the waist is joined the tail of a ...
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... says the historian , was that of a fish , but under the head of a fish was that of a man , and to its tail were joined women's feet . Five such monsters rose from the Persian Gulf at fabulous intervals of time . It is conjectured that ...
... says the historian , was that of a fish , but under the head of a fish was that of a man , and to its tail were joined women's feet . Five such monsters rose from the Persian Gulf at fabulous intervals of time . It is conjectured that ...
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... says he , " the water of the river flows into it , and during the remaining half of the year it returns from the lake into the Nile . At this time , while the waters are retiring , the profits derived from the fisheries , and paid daily ...
... says he , " the water of the river flows into it , and during the remaining half of the year it returns from the lake into the Nile . At this time , while the waters are retiring , the profits derived from the fisheries , and paid daily ...
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... says : - " Last evening , weary with the toils of day , Lull'd in the lap of rest secure I lay ; Full late we supp'd , and sparingly we eat ; No danger of a surfeit from our meat . Methought I sat upon a shelfy steep , And watch'd the ...
... says : - " Last evening , weary with the toils of day , Lull'd in the lap of rest secure I lay ; Full late we supp'd , and sparingly we eat ; No danger of a surfeit from our meat . Methought I sat upon a shelfy steep , And watch'd the ...
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... says : — " By those who curious have their art defin'd , Four sorts of fishers are distinct assign'd . The first in hooks delight ; here some prepare The angler's taper length , and twisted hair : Others the tougher threads of flax ...
... says : — " By those who curious have their art defin'd , Four sorts of fishers are distinct assign'd . The first in hooks delight ; here some prepare The angler's taper length , and twisted hair : Others the tougher threads of flax ...
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Página 182 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Página 182 - And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam: now is the time, While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, Snatch'd from the hoary steed the floating line, And all thy slender wat'ry stores prepare.
Página 183 - Which, by rapacious hunger swallow'd deep, Gives, as you tear it from the bleeding breast Of the weak, helpless, uncomplaining wretch, Harsh pain and horror to the tender hand.
Página 183 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Página 137 - Walton will be seen twice in no man's company he does not like, and likes none but such as he believes to be very honest men, which is one of the best arguments, or at least of the best testimonies I have, that I either am, or that he thinks me one of those, seeing I have not yet found him weary of me.
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