 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...is able to extract amusement. THE ANGLER'S WISH. I IN these flowery meads would be : These chrystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling noise, I with my angle would rejoice, Sit here, and see the turtle dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love. Or on that bank, feel the... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...There see the sun both rise and set : There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away, And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 1 Laverock, lark. 1 Supposed to be the name of a favourite dog. JAMES SHIRLEY, Was bom in London, about... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...There see the sun both rise and set ; There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away, And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 1 Laverock, laik. JAMES SHIRLEY Was bom in London, about 1594, educated at Merchant Taylor's school,... | |
 | Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...too lament a doom, Enmity may think severe. County Magazine. THE ANGLER'S WISH. I IN these flow'ry meads would be : These crystal streams should solace...harmonious bubbling noise, I with my angle would rejoice, Sit here and see the turtle dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love ; Or on that bank, feel the... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 476 pages
...art, from which the invincible patience of some men is able to extract amusement. The Angler's Wish. I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal...harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice, Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love. Or on that bank feel the west... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 474 pages
...art, from which the invincible patience of tome men it able to extract amusement. The Angler's Wish. I IN these flowery meads would be; These crystal streams...should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling noise Or on that bank feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty, please my mind To see sweet dew-drops... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...There see the sun both rise and set, There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away, And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. When we reflect how much the best and purest feelings of mankind are daily sacrificed to the furtherance... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...of the passing traveller, an exclamation was ready to escape my lips : — I in these flowery me;tds would be, These crystal streams should solace me,....harmonious bubbling noise, I with my angle would rejoice. WALTON. In the neighbourhood of Basingstoke, there was, formerly, a seat of John Marquis of Winchester,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...turned my present thoughts into verse: 'twas a Wish, which I'll repeat to you.8 THE ANGLER'S WISH. I in these flowery meads would be : These crystal...harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice : Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love : Or, on that bank, feel... | |
 | 1823 - 732 pages
...basket at his back, ajid sally foith alone to rivers By whose falls, • To meditate his time away, And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Melodious birds sing madrigals. He must be able to plash about in the wet reeds, and the long dank... | |
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I IN these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice. Sit here, and see the turtle-dove Court his chaste mate to acts of love; Or on that bank, feel the west wind... 
