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... receive so much pleasure or profit by it , as may make it worthy the time of their perusal , if they be not too grave or too busy men . And this is all the confidence that I can put on , concerning the merit of what is here offered to ...
... receive so much pleasure or profit by it , as may make it worthy the time of their perusal , if they be not too grave or too busy men . And this is all the confidence that I can put on , concerning the merit of what is here offered to ...
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... receive , and swallow a part of him , and let the other part remain in his mouth till the swallowed part be digested , and then swallow that other part that was in his mouth , and so put it over by degrees ; which is not unlike the Ox ...
... receive , and swallow a part of him , and let the other part remain in his mouth till the swallowed part be digested , and then swallow that other part that was in his mouth , and so put it over by degrees ; which is not unlike the Ox ...
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... receive him , With coolest shade , till noon - tide's heat be spent . His life is neither tost in boisterous seas , Or the vexatious world , or lost in slothful ease ; Pleas'd and full blest he lives , when he his God can please . His ...
... receive him , With coolest shade , till noon - tide's heat be spent . His life is neither tost in boisterous seas , Or the vexatious world , or lost in slothful ease ; Pleas'd and full blest he lives , when he his God can please . His ...
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... receives life , or what coloured fly it turns to ; but doubtless they are the death of Trouts and this is one killing way : many Take one , or more if need be , of these large yellow cadis pull off his head , and with it pull out his ...
... receives life , or what coloured fly it turns to ; but doubtless they are the death of Trouts and this is one killing way : many Take one , or more if need be , of these large yellow cadis pull off his head , and with it pull out his ...
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... received into its channel the river Dravus , Savus , Tibiscus , and divers others , changeth his name into this of Humberabus , as the old geographers call it . 4. MEDWAY , a Kentish river , famous for harbouring the royal navy . 5 ...
... received into its channel the river Dravus , Savus , Tibiscus , and divers others , changeth his name into this of Humberabus , as the old geographers call it . 4. MEDWAY , a Kentish river , famous for harbouring the royal navy . 5 ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.