 | Early English newspapers - 1874 - 800 pages
...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 and wantonness. My courteous locksmith's apprentice — a gentleman at heart — would hold no intercourse with these... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 672 pages
...quill, or cork, down sink With eager bite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace ; fi And on the world and my 7 Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten...worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list, these pa.stimcs still9 pursue, And on such l pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows... | |
 | William Senior - Fishing - 1875 - 278 pages
...contrast to the ancient angler who quaintly asked no higher bliss than to live harmlessly : — " Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite...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 and wantonness." My... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 722 pages
...CHAP. L] Lei me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place ; 3 Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink With eager bite...Perch, or Bleak, or Dace ;* And on the world and my 7 Creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t* embrace ;p And others spend their time... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...WALLER. 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 pearch, or bleak, or dace. IZAAK WALTON. I in these flowery meads would be; These crystal streams should... | |
 | John Jay Brown - Fishes - 1876 - 500 pages
...style : " 1 .1 t me live harmlessly; and near the brink Of Treat or Avon have a dwelling place; Where I may see my quill or cork down sink, With eager bite of porch, or roach, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think; Whilst gome men strive ill gotten... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - Fishes - 1877 - 428 pages
...with the fume of strong tobacco's smoke, All quaffing round, are ready for to choke," into — " While some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace, And others...their time in base excess Of wine or worse, in war or wantonness." But old Izaak, like the majority of " good " anglers, was fond of his pipe, and could... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - Fishes - 1877 - 432 pages
...Leuciscus Vulgaris.) " The pretty slender Dare, of many call' A tlie Dace." MICHAEL DRAYTON. " When I may see my quill or cork down sink With, eager bite of perch, or bleak, or Dace." — JOHN DENNTS. " THE pretty slender dare " is the typical representative of the genus Leucisci ;... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Book design - 1877 - 480 pages
...over to seek enjoyment, and to find far less of it than is found by him who is content " To we his quill or cork down sink With eager bite of perch, or bleak, or dace." A short distance below Marlow, a paper and corn-mill added to the lock completely block up the Thames,... | |
 | Ulick J. Burke - Fishing - 1878 - 186 pages
...CHAPTER III. 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...base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. DAVORS. XTX.HE two boys held their rods patiently in their A hands for some time without any symptoms... | |
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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... 
