Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 65
... Izaak Walton , when , in instructing you to im- pale a worm for angling , he bids you handle him ten- derly withal , and treat him like a friend . The scented pulvilio , which the untwisted hairs reproachfully ef- fused , still seems to ...
... Izaak Walton , when , in instructing you to im- pale a worm for angling , he bids you handle him ten- derly withal , and treat him like a friend . The scented pulvilio , which the untwisted hairs reproachfully ef- fused , still seems to ...
Page 111
... Izaak Walton re- cords a saying of his friend Sir Henry Wootton , that he would rather live ten May months than forty De- cembers - a sentiment to which you shall gladly sub- scribe before we part . Listen to the song of Milton : " Hail ...
... Izaak Walton re- cords a saying of his friend Sir Henry Wootton , that he would rather live ten May months than forty De- cembers - a sentiment to which you shall gladly sub- scribe before we part . Listen to the song of Milton : " Hail ...
Page 204
... Izaak Walton , however , must share the blame : his pastoral lines first induced me to try a fishing - rod , but I cannot understand how a man so sensible to the inanimate beauties of nature can have been so unfeeling towards her ...
... Izaak Walton , however , must share the blame : his pastoral lines first induced me to try a fishing - rod , but I cannot understand how a man so sensible to the inanimate beauties of nature can have been so unfeeling towards her ...
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