The Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson

Izaak Walton

Macmillan, 1901 - 497 sider

Indhold

• THE FIRST: 9
• THE SECOND: 40
• How to fish for and to dress the Chavender or Chub: 47
• THE FOURTH: 68
• CHAP PAGE: 97
• Observations of the Luce or Pike with Directions: 103
• Observations of the Perch and Directions how: 127
• Observations of the Barbel and Directions how to fish: 137
• Is of nothing or that which is nothing worth: 143
• THE FIFTH: 150
• Of the Minnow or Penk of the Loach and of: 159
• Directions for making of a Line and for the colour: 168
• LIFE OF SANDERSON: 431

Populære passager

Side 221 - Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore : But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore ; And having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.

Side 86 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...

Side 58 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.

Side v - The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also -will go with thee.

Side 409 - And when one of the company told him he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment, his answer was that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight ; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place — " For if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.

Side 60 - Slippers, lined choicely for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. 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.

Side 61 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Side 38 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink. With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace ; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war, or wantonness.

Side 206 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th

Side 87 - And raise my low-pitched thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits, and the noise Of princes' courts, I would rejoice. Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: The Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson; Library of English classics
• Forfatter: Izaak Walton
• Udgiver: Macmillan, 1901
• Oprindeligt fra: University of Michigan
• Digitaliseret: 29. maj 2007
• Længde: 497 sider