 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...simple fisher-swains. No shrieking owl, no night-crow lodgeth here; Nor is our simple pleasure roix'd with pains. Our sports begin with the beginning year,...leaping fish to land ; In roughs to sing, and dance aloug the golden sand. I have a pipe which ouce thou lovedstwcll ; of an old catch,1 and added more... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...the following passage1 is extracted. Ah ! would thou knew'st how much it better were To bide amoug the simple fisher-swains. No shrieking owl, no night-crow lodgeth here ; Nor is our simple pleasure mix'd with pains* Our sports begin with the beginning year, In calms to pull the leaping fish to html... | |
 | Hunting - 1832 - 610 pages
...both painter and engraver. PISCATORIBUS SACRUM. CHAP. I. — INTRODUCTORY. " Ah ! would thou knew'st how much it better were To 'bide among the simple fisher-swains : No scrieching owl, no night-crow lodgeth here ; Nor is our simple pleasure mixt with pains : Our sports... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...extracted :— Ah I would thou knew'st how much it better were To bide among the simple fisher wains ! No shrieking owl, no night-crow lodgeth here, Nor IS our simple pleasure mix'd with pains : Our sports begin with the beginning year, In calms to pull the leaping fish to land... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1835 - 348 pages
...Nor is our simple pleasure mix'd with pains i. Our sports begin with the beginning year, In crilms to pull the leaping fish to land ; In roughs to sing-, and dance along the golden sand. I have a pipe which once thou lovedst well, (Was never pipe that gave a better sound ,)... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1836 - 358 pages
...shrieking owl, no night-crow lodgeth here, Nor 1B our simple pleasure mli'd with pains i Our gporta begin with the beginning year, In calms to pull the leaping fish to land ; In roughs to sing, and danee along the golden ssntL I have a pipe which once thou lovedst well, (Was never pipe that gave... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...pictured to himself, when he extolled the halcyon lot of the fisherman : Ah '. would thou k newest how much it better were To bide among the simple fisher-swains...with pains. Our sports b^egin with the beginning year j In calms, to pull the leaping fish to land, In roughs, to sing and dance along the yellow sand. In... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 568 pages
...Fletcher pictured to himself, when he extolled the halcyon lot of the fisherman : Ah ! would thou knewest how much it better were To bide among the simple fisher-swains...fish to land. In roughs, to sing and dance along the ; along the yellow sand. In contemplating these beautiful islands, and the peaceful sea around them,... | |
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - Africa - 1844 - 356 pages
...exclaim — " Ah! would thou knewest how much it better were To bide among the simple fisher swains: No shrieking owl, no night-crow lodgeth here, Nor...fish to land, In roughs to sing and dance along the golden sand." Cantering thus gaily along, we shortly left behind us Carteia's ruined amphitheatre,... | |
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Nor is our simple pleasure mixed with pains. Our sports begin with the beginning year ; In calms, to pull the leaping fish to land. In roughs, to sing and dance along the ; along the yellow sand. 
