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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... Staffordshire , then the residence of Mr George Barlow , delivered the jewel into that gentleman's custody . In the ensuing week , Mr Barlow carried it to Robert Milward , Esquire , who was at that time a prisoner in the garrison of ...
... Staffordshire , then the residence of Mr George Barlow , delivered the jewel into that gentleman's custody . In the ensuing week , Mr Barlow carried it to Robert Milward , Esquire , who was at that time a prisoner in the garrison of ...
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... Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some grounds for supposing , was remotely related to him . Mr Offley was a very skilful angler , and Walton speaks of his " former favours " to him . Sir Henry Wotton ...
... Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some grounds for supposing , was remotely related to him . Mr Offley was a very skilful angler , and Walton speaks of his " former favours " to him . Sir Henry Wotton ...
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... Stafford ; Henry Bagley or Bailey , a clergyman ; and Alexander Brome , who was a poet , and , like Walton's friend , Dr Morley , one of Ben Jonson's twelve adopted sons . No date occurs to any of the verses ; but it is remarkable that ...
... Stafford ; Henry Bagley or Bailey , a clergyman ; and Alexander Brome , who was a poet , and , like Walton's friend , Dr Morley , one of Ben Jonson's twelve adopted sons . No date occurs to any of the verses ; but it is remarkable that ...
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... Stafford , I urged his own argument upon him , that pickerel weed of itself breeds pickerel . Which question was no sooner stated , but he transmits himself to his authority , viz . , Gesner , Dubravius , and Aldrovanus , which I ...
... Stafford , I urged his own argument upon him , that pickerel weed of itself breeds pickerel . Which question was no sooner stated , but he transmits himself to his authority , viz . , Gesner , Dubravius , and Aldrovanus , which I ...
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... Staffordshire side of the banks of the Dove , where the windings of the river form a small peninsula.s 8 The state of the fishing - house was thus described by a visitor in 1824 : - " Just above the Pike , a small wooden foot - bridge ...
... Staffordshire side of the banks of the Dove , where the windings of the river form a small peninsula.s 8 The state of the fishing - house was thus described by a visitor in 1824 : - " Just above the Pike , a small wooden foot - bridge ...
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