The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing, Volume 1Nattali and Bond, 1860 - Fishing |
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... continued it with great content , till I had made my collection ready to be augmented and completed by his matchless pen ; but then death prevented his intentions . When I heard that sad news , and heard also that these sermons were to ...
... continued it with great content , till I had made my collection ready to be augmented and completed by his matchless pen ; but then death prevented his intentions . When I heard that sad news , and heard also that these sermons were to ...
Page xix
... continued in them , such a mu- tual love , and joy , and content , as was no way defective ; yet this mutual content , and love , and joy , did receive a daily augmentation , by such daily obligingness to each other , as still added ...
... continued in them , such a mu- tual love , and joy , and content , as was no way defective ; yet this mutual content , and love , and joy , did receive a daily augmentation , by such daily obligingness to each other , as still added ...
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... continued to reside in Chancery Lane , until about August , 1644. He was appointed examiner of St. Dunstan's on the 27th of August , 1641 ; and in February , 1644 , was elected a vestryman of that parish ; but at a 1 Vide p . vii ...
... continued to reside in Chancery Lane , until about August , 1644. He was appointed examiner of St. Dunstan's on the 27th of August , 1641 ; and in February , 1644 , was elected a vestryman of that parish ; but at a 1 Vide p . vii ...
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... continued " in Chancery Lane till about 1643 ( at which time he found it dangerous and died in December 1639 ; Martin , born in March , 1641 ; and Thomas , born at Berkhamstead in July , 1637 , who became Bishop of Bath . Of Margaret ...
... continued " in Chancery Lane till about 1643 ( at which time he found it dangerous and died in December 1639 ; Martin , born in March , 1641 ; and Thomas , born at Berkhamstead in July , 1637 , who became Bishop of Bath . Of Margaret ...
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... continued till Dr. Donne put on immortality ; and so this mortal was turned into a love that cannot die . And , Sir , ' twas pity he was lost to you in your minority , before you had attained a judgment to put a true value upon the ...
... continued till Dr. Donne put on immortality ; and so this mortal was turned into a love that cannot die . And , Sir , ' twas pity he was lost to you in your minority , before you had attained a judgment to put a true value upon the ...
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Page 116 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page cxxxiii - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page cxxi - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Page 116 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page cxxi - Lark, when she means to rejoice, to cheer herself and those that hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air; and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad to think she must descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch but for necessity.
Page 120 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love. But Time drives flocks from field to fold; When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come.
Page 82 - Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow daffodil, Purple narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass, and azure culverkeys.
Page 42 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water : and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 79 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton ; a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind.