 | 1871 - 590 pagina’s
...Hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled Merlin is bold ? • s * Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that Angling is an...is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so: I A BANK RUNNEB. mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pagina’s
...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 or two to-morrow...angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so—I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pagina’s
...being allow'd his way, Soft mettle tires him." SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII. (Norfolk), Act I., Sc. I. " Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so." I. WALTON. The Complete Angler (Piscator), Pt. I., Ck. I. " Animals are such agreeable friends — they... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 pagina’s
...to thee." The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, , as Englished by William Caxton. Piscator. " The question is rather whether you be capable of learning...angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so : / mean with inclinations -to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1903 - 554 pagina’s
...which creeps upon its victim and delights in playing with it. CHAPTER VI THE CALIFORNIA BARRACUDA " Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so." — I AUK. WALTON. IN May or June the picturesque, lateen-rigged boats of the Venetian and Portuguese fishermen... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pagina’s
...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 or two to-morrow...angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so—I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1915 - 428 pagina’s
...than any Hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled Marlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow,...for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be bom so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice :... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 752 pagina’s
...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 or two to-morrow...friend's breakfast. Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling1 is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable... | |
 | Thomas Hubert Hutton, Stanley Blake - 1919 - 296 pagina’s
...than any hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your highmettled merlin is bold; and yet I doubt not to catch a brace or two tomorrow...learning. The question is, rather, whether you be cap-' able of learning it ? For angling is somewhat like poetry — men are to be born so; I mean,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1925 - 502 pagina’s
...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 or two to-morrow, E for a friend's breakfast : doubt not therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth... | |
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O sir, doubt not but that angling is an art. 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 timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold ! and yet I... 
