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... MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER ' AND OTHER WORKS WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OTHER AUTHORS PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH Ο WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . OR 21690 . DEDICATION ΤΟ H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. 1885.
... MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER ' AND OTHER WORKS WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OTHER AUTHORS PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH Ο WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . OR 21690 . DEDICATION ΤΟ H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. 1885.
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... angler's stand - point . Not that I mean to assert that Mr. Stewart was by any means the first to preach the new doctrine , still less the first to practise it , but that he was the first to ' formularise ' it , to give it consistency ...
... angler's stand - point . Not that I mean to assert that Mr. Stewart was by any means the first to preach the new doctrine , still less the first to practise it , but that he was the first to ' formularise ' it , to give it consistency ...
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another famous angler ( and politician ) , alas ! no more- the Johnson of Scotland , as he was well called - I mean Alex . Russel , Editor of the Scotsman , and author of the book of The Salmon . ' He and Stewart were two of the finest ...
another famous angler ( and politician ) , alas ! no more- the Johnson of Scotland , as he was well called - I mean Alex . Russel , Editor of the Scotsman , and author of the book of The Salmon . ' He and Stewart were two of the finest ...
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... anglers as a game and , in the largest sense of the word , sporting fish . This is partly owing , no doubt , to the difficulty , with an ever - increasing army of anglers , of obtaining decent trout or , still more , salmon fishing ( in ...
... anglers as a game and , in the largest sense of the word , sporting fish . This is partly owing , no doubt , to the difficulty , with an ever - increasing army of anglers , of obtaining decent trout or , still more , salmon fishing ( in ...
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... angler has his own hobby on the subject of rods . One man swears by a bamboo rod , another by lancewood or hickory , and a third would lose half the enjoyment of his day's sport if it were not to be effected by his trusty greenheart of ...
... angler has his own hobby on the subject of rods . One man swears by a bamboo rod , another by lancewood or hickory , and a third would lose half the enjoyment of his day's sport if it were not to be effected by his trusty greenheart of ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 94 - Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar, Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on, Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers.
Página 1 - A visitor of the rounds of God's sweet skill. Man's life is warm, glad, sad, 'twixt loves and graves, Boundless in hope, honoured with pangs austere, Heaven-gazing; and his angel-wings he craves: — The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves, Quickened with touches of transporting fear.
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 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 198 - Rusticum,' exactly reverses the dictum : Lo ! the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board, and decks a royal feast. . . . An assertion which is perfectly in consonance with the facts of the case as it pointedly figures in the Cartes de diner of most of the grand and royal banquets of former times— as, for instance, the feast at the enthronisation of George Nevil, Archbishop of York, in 1466 ; the feast given to Richard II. by the celebrated William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester...