Dove Dale Revisited: With Other Holiday SketchesS. Low, Marston, 1902 - 130 էջ |
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... cast and fly . A leatherbat more venturesome than the trout was attracted by the barbed be- trayer swinging in the wind , had seized it , and I found him next morning with the fly still in his mouth , floating dead on the water , but ...
... cast and fly . A leatherbat more venturesome than the trout was attracted by the barbed be- trayer swinging in the wind , had seized it , and I found him next morning with the fly still in his mouth , floating dead on the water , but ...
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... Cast on the bank , he dies with gasping pains , And trickling blood his silver mail distains . " JOHN GAY . We agreed in this , that it is a cruel law which forbids the taking of trout at such an early date . Not long afterwards the ...
... Cast on the bank , he dies with gasping pains , And trickling blood his silver mail distains . " JOHN GAY . We agreed in this , that it is a cruel law which forbids the taking of trout at such an early date . Not long afterwards the ...
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... were plentifully hidden up behind the inaccessible rocks . No sooner had she disappeared than I , making a long cast over a rising fish , hung my fly on the topmost branch of a young hawthorn bush away up among DOVE DALE REVISITED 21.
... were plentifully hidden up behind the inaccessible rocks . No sooner had she disappeared than I , making a long cast over a rising fish , hung my fly on the topmost branch of a young hawthorn bush away up among DOVE DALE REVISITED 21.
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... cast at the back of the island near the Twelve Apostles , and regretfully returned them to their native element . The Master also had not been fortunate , and when we came back to the gate he found him- self " hoist with his own petard ...
... cast at the back of the island near the Twelve Apostles , and regretfully returned them to their native element . The Master also had not been fortunate , and when we came back to the gate he found him- self " hoist with his own petard ...
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... casting their flies into the stream . " Painter . And fishes most delicately painted on the oak wainscoting . " Angler . Aye , spotted trouts , and graylings done to the life . " Host . And here are the portraits of Mr. Walton and Mr ...
... casting their flies into the stream . " Painter . And fishes most delicately painted on the oak wainscoting . " Angler . Aye , spotted trouts , and graylings done to the life . " Host . And here are the portraits of Mr. Walton and Mr ...
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AMATEUR ANGLER angling Ashbourne banks beautiful Beresford Dale big trout brace bright BROXBOURNE Bull called cast catch caught CHADSWELL Charles Cotton charming chub COTTON FISHING HOUSE Daisy day's fishing delightful donkey Dorstone Dove Dale Dove Holes drive G. N. Bankart grand hill Hoddesdon holiday hook host Houghton Regis Ilam Hall iron gate Izaak Walton Jack James Thorne landlord Leintwardine look Lover's Leap Manifold Master meadows miles morning October Photo picturesque Pisc Piscator Major pleasant pretty Ragged Robin rain rise river River Dove river Lea river Wye rocks round scenery SCOURING seems seen side Sir Humphry Davy SKETCHES soon stone stream strictly preserved tell Teme Thorpe Cloud told took tree trout and grayling valley Viator walk Walton and Cotton Ware weeds White Horse willow wind WOLFSCOTE BRIDGE yards young
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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 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 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 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 17 - In Spain a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana ; but it occurs under different circumstances. It disappears for about seven leagues — an effect of the absorbing power of the soil — the intervening space consisting of sandy and marshy grounds, across which the road to Andalusia passes...
Էջ 111 - ... 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 in my birth.
Էջ 3 - 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.
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.