| Frank Parker Day - 1927 - 222 pagina’s
...Hectanooga. "Good-night, Joe. See you soon again." "Good-night. Can't come too soon." CHAPTER XV DONALD The question is rather, whether you be capable of...learning it? For angling is somewhat like poetry, men are born to be so. — IZAAK WALTON. ONE morning last summer, my wife, Donald, aged seven, and I put our... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 2005 - 212 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: 1 mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that... | |
| Howell Raines - 2006 - 346 pagina’s
...these: Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? . . . Doubt not, therefore, sir, that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning....angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ... This identification of fly fishing with art and with poetry in particular has been hammered home... | |
| 1885 - 452 pagina’s
...honest man will stand to his bargain, notwithstanding all inconveniences.—//. Marten. Do not doubt that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning;...angling is somewhat like poetry : men are to be born to it, and must not only bring an inquiring, observing wit, but also a large measure of hope and patience.—Izaak... | |
| 1894 - 680 pagina’s
...than any hawk you have named, or more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold ? And yet I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow...doubt not therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, an art worth your learning. The question is whether you will be capable of learning it, for angling... | |
| Family Welfare Association (Great Britain) - 1884 - 1136 pagina’s
...hardly a changed word, except the substitution of • charity ' for ' angling,' say to their friends : ' Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth learning. The question is rather whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like... | |
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