And if myself have leave to see, I need not their light, having thee. Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs, with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset, With strangling snare, or windowy net: Let coarse bold hands, from... Highways and Byways in Surrey - Page 231by Eric Parker - 1908 - 452 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 416 pages
...or Moon, thou d-.ukneli both; And if my felf have leave to fee, I need not their Light, having thee. Let others freeze with angling Reeds, And cut their Legs with Shells and Weeds, Or treacheroufly poor Fifli befet "With ftrangling Snare, or winding Net. Xet coarfe bold Hands, from... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 402 pages
...dark'nest both; And if myself have leave to see, I need not there light, having thee. Let others free2e with angling reeds, And cut their legs with shells...treacherously poor fish beset With strangling snare or winding net : 20 Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...or Moon, thou darken'st both ; And if myself have leave to see, I need not their light, having thee. Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their...treacherously poor fish beset, With strangling snare, or winding net: Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors... | |
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...water; but in the ordinary way of fishing, let your bait hang within about six inches from the ground. Let others freeze with angling reeds* And cut their...weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling scares or windowy net; Xet coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest; Let... | |
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...reeds, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling snares or windowy net; Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks-outwrest; Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, To 'witch poor wangling fishes eyes. For thee,... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 518 pages
...cut their legs with shells and weeds ;— Or treach'rously poor fish beset, With strangling snares, or windowy net:— Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest,— sb Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, To 'witch poor wand'ring fishes eyes:— For thee, thou... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...legs u<ith shells and weeds ; — Or treach'rously poor fish beset, With strangling snares, or windmvy net : — Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks mitwrest ; — Let curious traitors sleave silk flies, To 'witch poor wand'ring fishes eyes : — For... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 350 pages
...let your bait IIH:I# within about six inches from the ground. Let others freeze with angling rorils, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously...With strangling snare or windowy net ; Let coarse hold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fiah in banks outwrest ; Let curious traitors sleave silk flies,... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...the ordinary way of fishing, let your bait hang within about six inches from the ground. Let <ithrrs freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs with...weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling enare or wiodowy net ; Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest ;... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1835 - 348 pages
...; but in the ordinary way of fishing, let your bait hang •within abmt six inches from the ground. Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their...With strangling snare or windowy net ; Let coarse hold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest ; Let curious traitors sleave silk flies,... | |
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