Dove Dale Revisited: With Other Holiday SketchesS. Low, Marston, 1902 - 130 էջ |
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... Give me leave to tell you , sir , the pasturage hereabouts is very fertile , and you may remember how Mr. Cotton declares ' these hills breed and feed good beef and mutton . ' " Angier . Aye , and make the best cheese that goes to Derby ...
... Give me leave to tell you , sir , the pasturage hereabouts is very fertile , and you may remember how Mr. Cotton declares ' these hills breed and feed good beef and mutton . ' " Angier . Aye , and make the best cheese that goes to Derby ...
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... give a brief account of its beginning and ending . From its source to its union with the Trent the Dove serves as a boundary to the counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire ; its whole length is about forty - five miles . The source is ...
... give a brief account of its beginning and ending . From its source to its union with the Trent the Dove serves as a boundary to the counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire ; its whole length is about forty - five miles . The source is ...
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... give him a Copy of Verses , that you were pleas'd to send me , now some Years past ; in which , he may see a good Picture of both ; and , so much of your own mind too , as will make any Reader that is blest with a Generous Soul , to ...
... give him a Copy of Verses , that you were pleas'd to send me , now some Years past ; in which , he may see a good Picture of both ; and , so much of your own mind too , as will make any Reader that is blest with a Generous Soul , to ...
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... gives the following fanciful de- scription of the interior of the house ( as sup- posed to have been seen by them in Cotton's lifetime ) . " Host . Gentlemen , the door is open ! ' Angler . This is marvellously contrived ; what a ...
... gives the following fanciful de- scription of the interior of the house ( as sup- posed to have been seen by them in Cotton's lifetime ) . " Host . Gentlemen , the door is open ! ' Angler . This is marvellously contrived ; what a ...
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... gives an account of it written by Mr. W. H. Pepys , in which he says " it was fast going to decay . ... Against the door on the inside were three large fragments of the table itself , which were of the Black Dove Dale marble . " In 1814 ...
... gives an account of it written by Mr. W. H. Pepys , in which he says " it was fast going to decay . ... Against the door on the inside were three large fragments of the table itself , which were of the Black Dove Dale marble . " In 1814 ...
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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.