The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and Fishing |
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Page 79 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 127 - 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 ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page cxii - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Page 102 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds Fish and Fishing The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas |
| Author | Izaak Walton |
| Editor | Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas |
| Translated by | Charles Cotton |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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