 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...Ducks, Water- hj#ris, Cootcs, &c. and many other fowle, with their brood, which he thinketh better then the noise of hounds, or blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make. Many other sports and recreations there be, much in use, at Kinging, howling, shooting, which Askam... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...water-hens, coots, &c. and many other fowl, with their brood, which he thmketh better than the noyse of hounds, or blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make. ¡ . i, M:iny other sports and recreations there be, much in use, as rmufmsr, bowling, shooting, which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1823 - 276 pages
...of fine fresh meadow flowers ; he hears the melodious harmony of birds; he sees the swans, herons, and many other fowl, with their brood, which he thinketh...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." Angling certainly excites the hopes and fears of those who pursue it earnestly, as much as any other... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...of fine fresh meadow flowers ; he hears the melodious harmony of birds ; he sees the swans, herons, and many other fowl, with their brood, which he thinketh...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." Angling certainly excites the hopes and fears of those who pursue it earnestly, as much as any other... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1847 - 702 pages
...pisealiu, nul!" studio digna, iltiberalia credita est, quod nullum babel iugeniuin, nullam perapicaciaiu. brookside, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make. Many other sports and recreations there be, much in use, as ringing, bowling, shooting, which Ascam... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...smells of fine fresh meadow-flowers ; he hears the melodious harmony of birds, he sees many water-fowl with their brood, which he thinketh better than the...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." " But the most pleasant of all outward pastimes," says our author, a little after, " is that of Aretus,... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1847 - 688 pages
...birds, he sees the swans, herons, ducks, water-horns, coots, &.C., and many other fowl, with ilieir brood, which he thinketh better than the noise of...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make. Many other sports and recreations there be, much in use, as ringing, bowling, fhooting, which Ascam... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 610 pages
...meadow flowers ; he hears the melodious harmony of birds ; he sees the swans, herons, ducks, water-hens, coots, &c. and many other fowl, with their brood ;...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." — BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 266. [ Winter Amusements.] " THE ordinary recreations which... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 656 pages
...meadow flowers ; he hears the melodious harmony of birds ; he sees the swans, herons, ducks, water-hens, coots, &c. and many other fowl, with their brood;...blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." — BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 266. [ Winter Amusements.'} " TUE ordinary recreations which... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 428 pages
...swans, herons, ducks, water-hens, coots. &c. and many other fowl, with their brood ; which he thinkcth better than the noise of hounds, or blast of horns, and all the sport that they can make." — BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 266. \\Vnii т Amuemcnlt.} " THE ordinary recreations which... | |
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Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding, and many dangers accompany them; but this is still and quiet: and if so be the angler catch no fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the brookside, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams;... 
