 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 páginas
...born so: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; 2 but having once got and practised 1 This is a mistake : it was Awcepi and not Venator, that named... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 páginas
...born so : 1 1 mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only...will prove to be like virtue, a reward to itself. VEN. Sir, I am now become so full of expectation, that I long much to have you proceed ; and in the... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 páginas
...discourse and practicej he must bring to the work not only " an enquiring, searching, observing wit," but " a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself." Endowed with such qualities, and pursuing the same system as did the father of all anglers, of exerting... | |
 | Francis Brinley - 1860 - 294 páginas
...born so ; I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good Angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observant wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to... | |
 | 1873 - 284 páginas
...Dennys in his mind, when he speaks of the inward qualities which a clever angler should possess : " He that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an enquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patienco, and a... | |
 | Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 256 páginas
...Walton says it is with angling. " He that hopes to be a good angler," says that pleasant optimist,* " must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing...will prove to be like virtue, a reward to itself." Thought and Observation—The distinction between thought and observation was well defined in a remark... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 páginas
...born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself,' is only a little less extravagant than Markham, who assures us, in his Country Contentments, that the... | |
 | 1873 - 284 páginas
...Dennys in his mind, when he speaks of the inward qualities which a elever angler should possess : " He that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an enquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 314 páginas
...born so— I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice. But he that hopes to be a good angler must not only...propensity to the art itself. But having once got and practiced it, then doubt not but that angling will be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue,... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 316 páginas
... PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY .. . : ' ' s Sri ROD AND REEL TROUT AND SALMON. BY GEORGE DAWSON. He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring...and patience, and a love and propensity to the art it'elt; but having once got and practised it, then doubt «ot but that -Angling will be so pleasant... | |
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... doubt not therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it; for Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though... 
