 Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning ; the question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so — I mean with inclinations to it, though...  Life of William T. Porter - Стр. 216авторы: Francis Brinley - 1860 - Страниц: 273Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - Страниц: 620
...doubt not to catch a- brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfaft : doubt not therefore, Sit, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning : the queftion is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is fomewhat like poetry, men... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 782
...a very learned eulogy on the element of earth. When that is finished, he exclaims, " Pise. O, Sir, doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - Страниц: 486
...than any Hawk you Lave named, and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled Merlin is bold;1 and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow,...whether you be capable of learning it? for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 858
...a very learned eulogy on the element of earth. When that is finished, he exclaims, " Pise. O, Sir, doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom go : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 772
...the element of earth. When that is finished, he exclaims, " Pise. O, Sir, doubt not but that A ngling is an art ; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - Страниц: 518
...more sharp sighted than any Hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your high mettled Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - Страниц: 516
...that I may become your Scholar, and be instructed in the art itself which you so much magnify. bold 1 and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow,...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - Страниц: 426
...may become your scholar, and be instructed in the art itself which you so much magnify. Pise. O, Sir, doubt not but that angling is an art. Is it not an...whether you be capable of learning it; for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - Страниц: 548
...Cowper. fctrtfis. Bishop (George) Morley, 1597 Cheapside. John David Michaelis, 1717 Halle. Do not doubt but that angling is an art, and an art worth your...whether you be capable of learning it. For angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so, and must not only bring an inquiring, observing wit, but... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - Страниц: 380
...is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly ? a trout ! that is more sharp sighted* than any hawk you have named, and more watchful and...whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be... | |
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