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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... manner , of fishes ' breeding , but doubtless of their being in season ; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire , namely Severn , Wye , and Usk , where Camden ( Brit . f . 633 ) ob- serves , that in the river Wye , Salmon are in ...
... manner , of fishes ' breeding , but doubtless of their being in season ; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire , namely Severn , Wye , and Usk , where Camden ( Brit . f . 633 ) ob- serves , that in the river Wye , Salmon are in ...
v. oldal
... manners of our forefathers , may not be productive of similar consequences to this nation in general . I conjecture , that about 1632 he married ; for in that year I find him living in a house in Chancery - lane , a few doors higher up ...
... manners of our forefathers , may not be productive of similar consequences to this nation in general . I conjecture , that about 1632 he married ; for in that year I find him living in a house in Chancery - lane , a few doors higher up ...
ix. oldal
... manner , his Complete Angler , or Contem- plative Man's Recreation , in small duodecimo , adorned with exquisite cuts of most of the fish mentioned in it . The artist who engraved them has been so modest as to conceal his name but there ...
... manner , his Complete Angler , or Contem- plative Man's Recreation , in small duodecimo , adorned with exquisite cuts of most of the fish mentioned in it . The artist who engraved them has been so modest as to conceal his name but there ...
xi. oldal
... manner it appears in , she gives us in the following words : " And for by cause that this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it , yf it were enprynted allone by itself and put in a ...
... manner it appears in , she gives us in the following words : " And for by cause that this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it , yf it were enprynted allone by itself and put in a ...
xv. oldal
... manner of describing them , that there cannot remain the least doubt but he had seen , and atten- tively perused , this ancient treatise . The book concludes with some general cautions , among which are these that follow ; which at ...
... manner of describing them , that there cannot remain the least doubt but he had seen , and atten- tively perused , this ancient treatise . The book concludes with some general cautions , among which are these that follow ; which at ...
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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.