The Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of EnglandWhittaker & Company, 1853 - 186 էջ |
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The Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of England Robert Blakey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
The Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of England Robert Blakey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1853 |
The Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of England Robert Blakey Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1853 |
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Էջ 134 - Once again I see These hedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild ; these pastoral farms, Green to the very door ; and wreaths of smoke Sent up in silence from among the trees, With some uncertain notice, as might seem, Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire The hermit sits alone.
Էջ 150 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Էջ 134 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Էջ 71 - ... mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give; And I with thee will choose to live.
Էջ 86 - Are puddle-water, all, compared with thine; And Loire's pure streams yet too polluted are With thine, much purer, to compare; The rapid Garonne and the winding Seine Are both too mean, Beloved Dove, with thee To vie priority; Nay, Tame and Isis, when conjoined, submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver feet.
Էջ 139 - I took much pains to see this prospect to advantage : sat up at a farm on the west till about twelve, and walked up the whole way. The night was remarkably fine and starry; towards morn the stars faded away, and left a short interval of darkness, which was soon dispersed by the dawn of day. The body of the sun appeared most distinct, with the rotundity of the moon, before it rose high enough to render its beams too brilliant for our sight. The sea, which bounded the western part, was gilt by its...
Էջ 147 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit., wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an /Ethiop's arm.
Էջ 43 - Neptune's wat'ry realm, When as his season serves, stemming my tideful stream, Then being in his kind, in me his pleasure takes, (For whom the fisher then all other game forsakes) Which, bending of himself to th...
Էջ 139 - Anglesea lay extended like a map beneath me, with every rill visible. I took much pains to see this prospect to advantage — sat up at a farm on the west till about twelve, and walked up the whole way. The night was remarkably fine and starry...
Էջ 131 - Remney, when she saw these gallant nymphs of Gwent On this appointed match were all so hotly bent, "Where she of ancient time had parted as a mound, The Monumethian fields and...