Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... better . Also , when the wind has been blowing hard , often have I seen His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and partridges and high - rocketing pheasants in first - rate workmanlike style . He is held to be a good.
... better . Also , when the wind has been blowing hard , often have I seen His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and partridges and high - rocketing pheasants in first - rate workmanlike style . He is held to be a good.
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... seen any sufficient reason to alter them —at any rate in regard to their main outlines . I should have unhesitatingly avowed it long ago , for I look upon a man who says that he never changes his mind as an ass , or else as sacrificing ...
... seen any sufficient reason to alter them —at any rate in regard to their main outlines . I should have unhesitatingly avowed it long ago , for I look upon a man who says that he never changes his mind as an ass , or else as sacrificing ...
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... seen a man drop his rod from sheer fright when a pike , that has been stealthily following his bait , suddenly dashes at it by the side of the boat or at the moment it is being lifted out of water . The pike , I am happy to say , is ...
... seen a man drop his rod from sheer fright when a pike , that has been stealthily following his bait , suddenly dashes at it by the side of the boat or at the moment it is being lifted out of water . The pike , I am happy to say , is ...
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... seen that in the bottom ring , which is about the best size for a medium length of rod , the perpendicular sup- ports are wider apart at the base than at the apex , the object being to frustrate any curls or ' hitches ' which the line ...
... seen that in the bottom ring , which is about the best size for a medium length of rod , the perpendicular sup- ports are wider apart at the base than at the apex , the object being to frustrate any curls or ' hitches ' which the line ...
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... seen , I think , that this is done by the swivel shown in the engraving . Why it should be so a glance at the mechanical arrangement of the swivel will probably suffice to indicate . The thing is so simple that the wonder is that swivel ...
... seen , I think , that this is done by the swivel shown in the engraving . Why it should be so a glance at the mechanical arrangement of the swivel will probably suffice to indicate . The thing is so simple that the wonder is that swivel ...
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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...