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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation ... - Page 68
by Izaak Walton - 1836 - 328 pages
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.1 There my hostess (which I may tell you is both cleanly,...me; and shall now dress it after my fashion, and I wan-ant it good meat. Yen. Come, Sir, with all my heart, for I begin to be hungry, and long to be at...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...spot on his tail. And I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him: I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall...in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.1 There my hostess (which I may tell you is both cleanly, and hdfcds^me, and civil) hath dressed...
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A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their ...

Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...the traveller is apt to long for the accommodation so expatiated upon by good Master ISAAC WALTON, " An honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly...windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall." He who may wish to explore the most secluded parts of Shetland, and to proceed with a true spirit of...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him : I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, wliere we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.1 There my hostess (which I may tell you is both cleanly, and handsome, and civil) hath dressed...
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The London Magazine

1828 - 746 pages
...Hodsden,”—laughing at “poor rich men, that are always busy or discontented:' leading our mates “to an honest alehouse, where we shall find a cleanly...and twenty ballads stuck about the wall”—.” rejoicing with brother Peter and his friend, telling tales, or singing ballads, or making a catch,...
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The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton:: Extensively ...

Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...spot on his tail : and I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him. I'll now lead you to an honest Ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, nnd twenty ballads stuck about the wall ; there my Hostess, which I may tell you, is both cleanly and...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...sport and instruction are over, they repair to the little alehouse, well known to Piscator, where they ' The hostess is cleanly, handsome, and civil, and knows how to dress the fish after Piscator's own...
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The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq. [pseud., I.e. J. Coad] in ...

Esq. Gregory GREENDRAKE (pseud. [i.e. J. Coad? or Henry Brereton Cody?]), J. Coad - Fishing - 1832 - 334 pages
...which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it.' But come, ' I'll lead you to an honest alehouse, where we shall find...windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.'" ISAAC WALTON. SOME, but we trust very few, of our readers, may consider, as inapt, the association...
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Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not, Volume 4

Children's literature, English - 1830 - 314 pages
...well with their peaceful occupations. Old Izaak Walton well describes it to his companion — " I will now lead you to an honest alehouse, where we shall...in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the walls." Manyyears have passed since I sat in that little parlour, yet the remembrance of its sanded...
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Beauties of the Country: Or, Descriptions of Rural Customs, Objects, Scenery ...

Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...flowery fields by his winning words ! — promising to lead us to some honest alehouse before we begin, " where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck upon the wall; where the hostess is both cleanly, handsome, and civil, and can dress a fish and make...
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