Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific CoastG.P. Putnam's sons, 1910 - 399 էջ |
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... tints they take on before night ; while far up the island , the afternoon fog was pouring down the rocky slopes , a thing of beauty , glorified beyond power of expression . I went aboard , took the helm , and we turned out to sea ; but ...
... tints they take on before night ; while far up the island , the afternoon fog was pouring down the rocky slopes , a thing of beauty , glorified beyond power of expression . I went aboard , took the helm , and we turned out to sea ; but ...
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... tints down to the most delicate shades of the tourmaline in color . The angling here ten years ago is said to have been beyond the wildest dreams of the angler . The trout were seemingly all large , and literal droves of big ones can be ...
... tints down to the most delicate shades of the tourmaline in color . The angling here ten years ago is said to have been beyond the wildest dreams of the angler . The trout were seemingly all large , and literal droves of big ones can be ...
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... tints , the stream reflecting aspens , willows , and others of the splendid canopy in its waters . Beneath the trees the camp is made ; some anglers sleep in tents , others prefer the open , and after a few days of rest and trout the ...
... tints , the stream reflecting aspens , willows , and others of the splendid canopy in its waters . Beneath the trees the camp is made ; some anglers sleep in tents , others prefer the open , and after a few days of rest and trout the ...
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... tints of blue , red , and purple , its racing shadows of infinite beauty , deep tones of tour- maline , the pink of the alpine glow , all lost in the deep purples that flood the placid beauty of the lake in a warm glow of radiance and ...
... tints of blue , red , and purple , its racing shadows of infinite beauty , deep tones of tour- maline , the pink of the alpine glow , all lost in the deep purples that flood the placid beauty of the lake in a warm glow of radiance and ...
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... tint and tone . The tules had been nipped by the frost and had lost their vivid greens , and hung in the wind , or crackled as the ducks and geese rustled through them , like banners in red and gold . The water of the thousand springs ...
... tint and tone . The tules had been nipped by the frost and had lost their vivid greens , and hung in the wind , or crackled as the ducks and geese rustled through them , like banners in red and gold . The water of the thousand springs ...
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Էջ 138 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.
Էջ 22 - I sat down, when I was last this way afishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose-hill...
Էջ 23 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be...
Էջ 23 - ... there I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea ; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots, and pebble-stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs ; some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully...
Էջ 182 - I have compylyd it in a greter uolume, of dyuerse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche sholde haue but lytyll mesure in the sayd...
Էջ 36 - I seek the great lake in the top of the mountain to bathe in its limpid waters," he answered. "There would I also go and share your perils." "'tis well," answered Wimawita, "and I will reward your faith in me." Tsileu, inwardly raging, cast a look of hate upon them and sped northward through the land of the Klamaths. The next day Wimawita and Tculucul journeyed up the river. They came to a large lake and after some distance this gradually narrowed to a small but rapid stream. After a course of some...
Էջ 44 - And he quench'd his thirst with two quarts of the first, To a pint of the latter, daily; Singing, "Oh, that a Dutchman's Draught could be As deep as the rolling Zuyder-Zee!
Էջ 23 - I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Էջ 182 - 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...