The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing. With Notes Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the AuthorsHenry Washbourne, 1842 - 396 pages |
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... sure I have found a high content in the search and conference of what is here offered to the reader's view and censure : I wish him as much in the perusal of it , and so I might here take my leave , but will stay a little and tell him ...
... sure I have found a high content in the search and conference of what is here offered to the reader's view and censure : I wish him as much in the perusal of it , and so I might here take my leave , but will stay a little and tell him ...
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... sure , such as frequently visits this romantic spot , is seen re- galing in the foreground on the left ; from an Original Draw- ing by Francis Chantrey , Esq . , R. A. , & c . Copied and Engraved by J. Thompson . Page 345 . : " Oh , how ...
... sure , such as frequently visits this romantic spot , is seen re- galing in the foreground on the left ; from an Original Draw- ing by Francis Chantrey , Esq . , R. A. , & c . Copied and Engraved by J. Thompson . Page 345 . : " Oh , how ...
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... sure you be honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats , to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you to deliver to your mother ; and ...
... sure you be honest , and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford . And I do now give you ten groats , to bear your charges to Exeter ; and here is ten groats more , which I charge you to deliver to your mother ; and ...
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... to St. Paul's church , and desire the people to intercede with God for his pardon . I am sure one of them told it me , lives still , and will witness it . " Doctor JOHN DONNE was born in London , in the c 2 LIFE OF WALTON . xxvii.
... to St. Paul's church , and desire the people to intercede with God for his pardon . I am sure one of them told it me , lives still , and will witness it . " Doctor JOHN DONNE was born in London , in the c 2 LIFE OF WALTON . xxvii.
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... sure very large is : Yet that would not serve , but I must bear his charges ; And yet , for all that , rode astride on a beast , The worst that e'er went on three legs , I protest : It certainly was the most ugly of jades ; His hips and ...
... sure very large is : Yet that would not serve , but I must bear his charges ; And yet , for all that , rode astride on a beast , The worst that e'er went on three legs , I protest : It certainly was the most ugly of jades ; His hips and ...
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Page 106 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; 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.
Page 8 - Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth...
Page xxxi - Who God doth late and early pray. More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book, or friend; - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 72 - I know it now, I learned the first part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the world began to take hold of me : but you shall, God willing, hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin, sing the first part to the gentlemen with a merry heart, and I'll sing the second when you have done. " THE MILK-MAID'S SONG. Come live with me, and...
Page 74 - With coral clasps and amber studs, And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 241 - Therefore be sure you look to that. And, in the next place, look to your health, and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of — a blessing that money cannot buy — and therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Page xxxi - 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...
Page 245 - Farewell, ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow echo ; Gold, pure clay ; Honour the darling but of one short day...
Page 74 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's 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.