The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and FishingL.A. Lewis, 1839 - 396 oldal |
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... breeding , and seasons , and catching of Fish , I am not so simple as not to know , that a captious reader may find exceptions against something said of some of these ; and therefore I must entreat him to consider , that experience ...
... breeding , and seasons , and catching of Fish , I am not so simple as not to know , that a captious reader may find exceptions against something said of some of these ; and therefore I must entreat him to consider , that experience ...
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... breed of those base Otters , they do so much mischief . VEN . But what say you to the Foxes of the nation , would not you as willingly have them destroyed ? for doubtless they do as much mischief as Otters do . Pisc . Oh , Sir , if they ...
... breed of those base Otters , they do so much mischief . VEN . But what say you to the Foxes of the nation , would not you as willingly have them destroyed ? for doubtless they do as much mischief as Otters do . Pisc . Oh , Sir , if they ...
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... breeds and nourisheth , and descend to the least of creatures , how doth the earth afford us a doctrinal example in the little Pismire , who in the summer provides and lays up her winter pro- CHAP . I. ] THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 13.
... breeds and nourisheth , and descend to the least of creatures , how doth the earth afford us a doctrinal example in the little Pismire , who in the summer provides and lays up her winter pro- CHAP . I. ] THE COMPLETE ANGLER . 13.
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... breed and feed in them . Pliny the Philosopher says , in the third chapter of his Ninth Book , that in the Indian Sea the fish called the Balana , or Whirlpool , is so long and broad , as to take up more in length and breadth than two ...
... breed and feed in them . Pliny the Philosopher says , in the third chapter of his Ninth Book , that in the Indian Sea the fish called the Balana , or Whirlpool , is so long and broad , as to take up more in length and breadth than two ...
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... breeds in clay walls ; and he never refuses a grasshopper on the top of a swift stream , nor at the bottom the young humble - bee that breeds in long grass , and is ordinarily found by the mower of it . In August , and in the cooler ...
... breeds in clay walls ; and he never refuses a grasshopper on the top of a swift stream , nor at the bottom the young humble - bee that breeds in long grass , and is ordinarily found by the mower of it . In August , and in the cooler ...
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75. oldal - 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.
10. oldal - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
74. oldal - 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...
112. oldal - Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day ; There meditate my time away ; And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
108. oldal - 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.
111. oldal - And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits and the noise Of princes' Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook...
246. oldal - Go ! let the diving negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek ; We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass ; And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears.
xxxi. oldal - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
76. oldal - ... fall. 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.
255. oldal - FAREWELL, thou busy world ! and may We never meet again : Here I can eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more good in one short day, Than he, who his whole age out-wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears.