 | 1797 - Страниц: 420
...my line . Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod allr.vart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. z70 RURAL SPORTS. CANTO II. Now, sporting Muse! draw in the flowing reins, Leave the clear streams... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1804 - Страниц: 208
...FLY-MAKER. With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Let me with judgment cast the featherM hook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. To frame the little animal, provide AH the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - Страниц: 308
...line. ' ;, Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. CANTO II. Now, sporting Muse, draw in the flowing reins. Leave the clear streams awhile for sunny plains.... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1814 - Страниц: 188
...use dead lines in April, and meet sport until November. t CHAP. XX. ARTrFICIAT, FLY FISHING. FISHING with an artificial fly is certainly a very pleasant...is attended with much less labour and trouble than bottom fishing. The fly fisherman has but little to carry either in bulk or weight, nor has he the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...stain my line. Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, unletter'd hinds ; When for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton da CANTO II. Now, sporting Muse, draw in the flowing reins, Leave the clear streams awhile for sunny plains.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Страниц: 364
...stain my line. Let me, less cruel, cast the fcather'd hook With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. CANTO II. Now, sporting Muse, draw in the flowing reins, Leave the clear streams awhile for sunny plains.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Страниц: 1062
...stain my line. Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, ms and golden lustre rich emblaz'd, Seraphic arms and trophies ; all the while Now, sporting Muse, draw in the flowing reins, Leave the clear streams awhile for sunny plains. Should... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - Страниц: 426
...Salmon, fyC. " Silent along the maiy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey." FISHING with an artificial fly is, certainly, a very pleasant...trouble than bottom-fishing. The Fly-fisherman has but little to carry, either in bulk or weight ; nor has he the dirty work of diging clay, making ground-baits,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - Страниц: 600
...stain my line. 1-et me, less eruel, east the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, r eaeh limb, eaeh thought as elear as day. " O, who ean spe CANTO II. Now, sporting Muse, draw in the flowing reins, beave the elear streams awhile for sunny plains.... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - Страниц: 436
...White Moth-Fly. Red Spinnor. CHAP. I. Artificial-Fly fahing, and Fly -making for Trout, Salmon, bc. " Silent along the mazy margin stray. And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey." FISHING with an artificial fly is, certainly, a very pleasant and gentlemanly way of angling, and is... | |
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Nor trowl for pikes, dispeoplers of the lake. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line : Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin... 
