Dove Dale Revisited: With Other Holiday SketchesS. Low, Marston, 1902 - 130 էջ |
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... mile or so below , I may claim a fairly intimate acquaintance , chiefly as regards their angling capacities . I owe my initiation to the brotherhood of anglers to a visit of three weeks to Dove Dale , eighteen years ago . My personal ...
... mile or so below , I may claim a fairly intimate acquaintance , chiefly as regards their angling capacities . I owe my initiation to the brotherhood of anglers to a visit of three weeks to Dove Dale , eighteen years ago . My personal ...
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... miles . The source is in Axe - edge , not far from the little village of Dovehead . The water bubbles up through a little well , whose sides are protected by a couple of flag- stones . " Here springs the Dove ! and with a grateful zest ...
... miles . The source is in Axe - edge , not far from the little village of Dovehead . The water bubbles up through a little well , whose sides are protected by a couple of flag- stones . " Here springs the Dove ! and with a grateful zest ...
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... miles west of Ilam . The Manifold dis- appears near Wetton Mill , five miles northward . The waters of the two rivers differ in tempera- ture at their emergence by about two degrees , so that they do not anywhere intermingle . In flood ...
... miles west of Ilam . The Manifold dis- appears near Wetton Mill , five miles northward . The waters of the two rivers differ in tempera- ture at their emergence by about two degrees , so that they do not anywhere intermingle . In flood ...
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... miles of divergence they come together again below Ilam , as already noted . Anyone really desirous of exploring the upper Manifold will do well to take Mr. Sheldon's book for his guide . During my short visit I found no opportunity of ...
... miles of divergence they come together again below Ilam , as already noted . Anyone really desirous of exploring the upper Manifold will do well to take Mr. Sheldon's book for his guide . During my short visit I found no opportunity of ...
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... mile walk down the dales . Ah ! what a delightful walk it was — for me at least - and the others , though they may perhaps have felt the fatigue a little more than I , yet seemed to enjoy it . If the sun did not shine on us , the wind ...
... mile walk down the dales . Ah ! what a delightful walk it was — for me at least - and the others , though they may perhaps have felt the fatigue a little more than I , yet seemed to enjoy it . If the sun did not shine on us , the wind ...
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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.