 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!...  Dove Dale Revisited: With Other Holiday Sketches - Էջ 3Edward Marston - 1902 - 130 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 էջ
...meat : Now, happy fisherman ; now twitch the line ! 155 How thy rod hends! behold, the prize is thine! Cast on the bank, he dies, with gasping pains, And trickling blood his silver mail distains. You must not every worm promiscuous use; Judgment will tell thee proper bait to choose ; 160 The worm... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 էջ
...meat; Vow, happy fisherman, now twitch the line ' Flow thy rod bends ! behold, the prize is thin« ! Cast on the bank, he dies with gasping pains, And trickling blood his silver mail detains. You must not every worm promiscuous us*. Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose : The... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 էջ
...meat : Now, happy fisherman, now twitch the line! How thy rod bends ! behold, the prize is thine ! You must not every worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose : The worm that... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 էջ
...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. You must not every worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose : The worm that... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 էջ
...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. You must not every worm promiscuous use; Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose; The worm that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...meat ; Now, happy fisherman, now twitch the line I How thy rod bends ! behold, the prize is thine! w You must not every worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose: The worm that... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor. - 1826 - 438 էջ
...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. You must not every worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell the proper bait to choose: The worm that... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 էջ
...fallacious meat: Now, happy fisherman, now twitch the line! How thy rod bends t behold, the prize is thine ! Cast on the bank, he dies with gasping pains, And trickling blood his silver mail distains. You must not every worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell thee proper bait to choose; The worm that... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 էջ
...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. Yon most not ev'ry worm promiscuous use, Judgment will tell thee proper bait to choose ; The worm that... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 էջ
...fallacious meat : Now, happy fisherman, now twitch the line ! How thy rod bendi! behold, the prize is thin* Cast on the bank, he dies with gasping pains, And trickling blood his silver mail distains. You must not ет'гу worm promiscuous e «e, Jmdgment will tell thee proper bait to chotee ; The... | |
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