Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... half the colours of the rainbow ? Or the ' arrowy dace , ' almost as mettle- some , and perhaps even more graceful and glittering than the aristocratic trout ? A cold , sweet , silver life , wrapped in round waves , Quickened with ...
... half the colours of the rainbow ? Or the ' arrowy dace , ' almost as mettle- some , and perhaps even more graceful and glittering than the aristocratic trout ? A cold , sweet , silver life , wrapped in round waves , Quickened with ...
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... half - frozen dyke , That hungers into madness every plunging pike . Woe be to his children , or his brother , mother , or cousin , grandchildren or great - grandchildren , should they cross his path ; and I have not the slightest doubt ...
... half - frozen dyke , That hungers into madness every plunging pike . Woe be to his children , or his brother , mother , or cousin , grandchildren or great - grandchildren , should they cross his path ; and I have not the slightest doubt ...
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... half , ' of the thickness of an ' armgrete , ' or about as thick as a man's arm , and the joints to be bound with stout ' hopis of yren ' ( iron hoops ) ! In the first volume I have given a description of the dif ferent woods used in ...
... half , ' of the thickness of an ' armgrete , ' or about as thick as a man's arm , and the joints to be bound with stout ' hopis of yren ' ( iron hoops ) ! In the first volume I have given a description of the dif ferent woods used in ...
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... half - brazed , or not brazed at all , the best plan is to grease or soap them before use . Joints which have become hopelessly ' stuck ' may generally be easily separated by being turned slowly round and round at the ' sticking point ...
... half - brazed , or not brazed at all , the best plan is to grease or soap them before use . Joints which have become hopelessly ' stuck ' may generally be easily separated by being turned slowly round and round at the ' sticking point ...
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... half inches in diameter , with fifty yards of finest dressed - silk running - line on it , only weighs ten ounces . On the whole Slater's reel is the most original , and I am disposed to think , from the spinner's point of view , also ...
... half inches in diameter , with fifty yards of finest dressed - silk running - line on it , only weighs ten ounces . On the whole Slater's reel is the most original , and I am disposed to think , from the spinner's point of view , also ...
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Página 334 - O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Página 149 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Página 197 - But of this no more, but that it is observed, that the old or very great Pikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle-sized Pikes, being by the most and choicest palates observed to be the best meat; and contrary, the Eel is observed to be the better for age and bigness.
Página 255 - ... spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror ; who, in the most persevering and unrelenting way, chases his rival from one part of the tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue.
Página 176 - Shrewsbury Barker' depicts the trolling-rod of this Paladin but goes no further. Receding again a period of more than sixty years, we call into court Master Leonard Mascall, who, in 1590, presented the world with ' A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging...