Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Volumen61885 |
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Página xii
... course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the Badminton Library ; and I am sure that my readers will , in any case , be the gainers by the substitution of the admirable essays alluded to , written as they are by fly ...
... course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the Badminton Library ; and I am sure that my readers will , in any case , be the gainers by the substitution of the admirable essays alluded to , written as they are by fly ...
Página 15
... course , cost next to nothing , and break or bulge with the first strain put upon them . The ferrules used by the really good tackle - makers are made , I am informed , each one separately , out of sheet brass , hard - soldered , or ...
... course , cost next to nothing , and break or bulge with the first strain put upon them . The ferrules used by the really good tackle - makers are made , I am informed , each one separately , out of sheet brass , hard - soldered , or ...
Página 21
... favour the Nottingham reel - at any rate as improved by some recent additions . I do not , of course , for a moment expect , or , indeed , wish , to convert the Nottingham trollers to what is commonly known PIKE - TACKLE . 21.
... favour the Nottingham reel - at any rate as improved by some recent additions . I do not , of course , for a moment expect , or , indeed , wish , to convert the Nottingham trollers to what is commonly known PIKE - TACKLE . 21.
Página 31
... course , without cutting edges of any description . By carrying the disgorger in this manner , as a part of the fishing - knife , there is one thing less to be re- membered every morning before starting , a blessing to absent- minded ...
... course , without cutting edges of any description . By carrying the disgorger in this manner , as a part of the fishing - knife , there is one thing less to be re- membered every morning before starting , a blessing to absent- minded ...
Página 33
... course , attainable in gaffing as in everything else , and it may even be said that special qualities , physical and mental , are required to make a really first - rate gaffer . Steady nerves and a lightning- like rapidity of decision ...
... course , attainable in gaffing as in everything else , and it may even be said that special qualities , physical and mental , are required to make a really first - rate gaffer . Steady nerves and a lightning- like rapidity of decision ...
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...