Angling Literature in England: And Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients; with a Notice of Some Books on Other Piscatorial Subjects

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S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881 - 87 páginas
 

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Página 56 - When if an insect fall, (his certain guide) He gently takes him from the whirling tide, Examines well his form with curious eyes, His gaudy vest, his wings, his horns, and size; Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, And on the back a speckled feather binds; So just the colours shine through every part, That Nature seems to live again in Art.
Página 55 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly : And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Página 45 - 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...
Página 39 - But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music has thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou...
Página 36 - To which is added, the Contemplative and Practical Angler, by way of diversion. With a narrative of that dextrous and mysterious art experimented in England, and perfected in more remote and solitary parts of Scotland. By way of dialogue. Writ in the year 1658, but not till now made publick, by Richard Franck, Philanthropus.
Página 36 - Northern Memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland ; wherein most or all of the Cities, Citadels, Sea-ports, Castles, Forts, Fortresses, Rivers, and Rivulets, are compendiously described.
Página 29 - And yet atte the leest he hath his holsom walke and mery at his ease, a swete ayre of the swete fauoure of the meede floures: that makyth hym hungry.
Página 51 - The art of angling. Wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that recreation. Written by Thomas Barker, an ancient practitioner in the said art.
Página 29 - atte the leest, hath his holsom walke, and mery at his ease, a swete ayre of the swete sauoure of the niede floures, that makyth him hungry ; he hereth the melodyous armony of fowles ; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and many other fowles...
Página 56 - When he with fruitless pain hath skimm'd the brook, And the coy fish rejects the skipping hook, He shakes the boughs that on the margin grow, Which o'er the stream a waving forest throw, When if an insect fall (his certain guide), He gently takes him from the whirling tide, Examines...

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