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... hill - born river - as if she would seek its very source , where she was spawned . Stand out of the way , you son of a sea - cook - you in the tattered blue breeches , with the tail of your shirt hanging out . If we lose this fish at ...
... hill - born river - as if she would seek its very source , where she was spawned . Stand out of the way , you son of a sea - cook - you in the tattered blue breeches , with the tail of your shirt hanging out . If we lose this fish at ...
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... hill ; the white smoke of the engine curled through the valley , and at intervals the hissing train was seen on the ponderous embankment , and we entered the station amidst noise and bustle . What a change from the " Straggler ! " They ...
... hill ; the white smoke of the engine curled through the valley , and at intervals the hissing train was seen on the ponderous embankment , and we entered the station amidst noise and bustle . What a change from the " Straggler ! " They ...
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... Hill ; " go - o - ne away . " " Not gone very far , " shouts a countryman , " for there he goes into the stable - yard . " And so he did , and went farther too ; he went into the saddle - room , jumped over the bars of the grate , where ...
... Hill ; " go - o - ne away . " " Not gone very far , " shouts a countryman , " for there he goes into the stable - yard . " And so he did , and went farther too ; he went into the saddle - room , jumped over the bars of the grate , where ...
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... Hill of those days ; poor Felton Harvey , Harry Percy , Frank Russell , Freemantle - the last four all called to " That undiscovered country , from whose bourne No traveller returns ; " George Cathcart , George and William Lennox ...
... Hill of those days ; poor Felton Harvey , Harry Percy , Frank Russell , Freemantle - the last four all called to " That undiscovered country , from whose bourne No traveller returns ; " George Cathcart , George and William Lennox ...
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... Hill and myself ; but , let me tell you , at even weights , we'll ride you for our lives . " A thousand other anec- dotes might be told of poor Turnham , who , " though familiar , was by no means vulgar , " and who was at heart a kind ...
... Hill and myself ; but , let me tell you , at even weights , we'll ride you for our lives . " A thousand other anec- dotes might be told of poor Turnham , who , " though familiar , was by no means vulgar , " and who was at heart a kind ...
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Página 392 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Página 238 - Another came running presently, And he was pale as pale could be ! " Fly, my Lord Bishop, fly !" quoth he, " Ten thousand rats are coming this way : The Lord forgive you for yesterday !" " I'll go to my tower on the Rhine," replied he ; " 'Tis the safest place in Germany ; The walls are high, and the shores are steep, And the stream is strong and the water deep.
Página 151 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Página 13 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 2 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 13 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 151 - In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand...
Página 103 - For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away. How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start ? How many long days and long...
Página 153 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Página 100 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.