Dove Dale Revisited, with Other Holiday SketchesS. Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1902 - 130 էջ |
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... rain early and it rained steadily all day , a cold , drifting drizzle . I fished all day in it and my labours were not rewarded . I may say , however , that I reached home at five o'clock , outwardly dripping with wet but in- wardly as ...
... rain early and it rained steadily all day , a cold , drifting drizzle . I fished all day in it and my labours were not rewarded . I may say , however , that I reached home at five o'clock , outwardly dripping with wet but in- wardly as ...
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... rain , To think that I have seen her smile , And haply may I do again . ” CHARLES COTTON . Tuesday , October 7th . HAVE now been here a week , and during the whole of the time the weather has been abominable as bad for fishing as it ...
... rain , To think that I have seen her smile , And haply may I do again . ” CHARLES COTTON . Tuesday , October 7th . HAVE now been here a week , and during the whole of the time the weather has been abominable as bad for fishing as it ...
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... rain all day without cessation . We fished through it all . Result : two small gray- ling ; the Master still vexed by the persistent trout , of which he caught several and threw them back . He also brought home a brace of fine grayling ...
... rain all day without cessation . We fished through it all . Result : two small gray- ling ; the Master still vexed by the persistent trout , of which he caught several and threw them back . He also brought home a brace of fine grayling ...
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... it as a telling name , and I hereby present it to the makers . For the first three or four days the weather was favourable . We had some rain , and we had wind enough in the right quarter to cause some 60 IN THE VALE OF.
... it as a telling name , and I hereby present it to the makers . For the first three or four days the weather was favourable . We had some rain , and we had wind enough in the right quarter to cause some 60 IN THE VALE OF.
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... rain everywhere except on the particular stretch of the Teme to which we had special access . We had a six - mile drive across a lovely country , and found the river Teme teeming with fine grayling . In the present state of my health I ...
... rain everywhere except on the particular stretch of the Teme to which we had special access . We had a six - mile drive across a lovely country , and found the river Teme teeming with fine grayling . In the present state of my health I ...
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Էջ 3 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Էջ 111 - ... 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 possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet has happily expressed it, " I was for that time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised...
Էջ 105 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Էջ 4 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Էջ 116 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.
Էջ 28 - SACRUM. Why, then, I perceive I have some title here ; for I am one of them, though one of the worst ; and here below it is the cypher too you spoke of, and 't is prettily contrived.
Էջ 11 - ... behind the door; The chest contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose; The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, With aspen boughs, and flowers and fennel gay; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row.
Էջ 111 - Look, under that broad beech-tree I sat down when I was last this way a-fishing, 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 52 - Oh my beloved nymph, fair Dove ! Princess of rivers ! how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it, all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty : And, with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learnt, industriously to try.
Էջ 12 - When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat: Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine! Cast on the bank, he dies, with gasping pains, And trickling blood his silver mail distains.