 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...week, wherein to try What the best master's hand ean do, With the most deadly killing Hie : A day, with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treach'rous... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 654 pages
...Week, wherein to try What the best Master's hand can do With the most deadly killing /•'///. A day, with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching...curl the stream ; And, Master, half our work is done. Then whilst behind some bush we wait, » The scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 pages
...week wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the ino.-.i deadly killing Hit- : A day. with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray,— We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1826 - 284 pages
...delightful morning for our sport; one lhat will justify my son Cotton's assertion :— .'A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun,...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.' Who can be seated upon the banks of the clear and tranquil Lea, enjoying so delicious a day-break as... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1826 - 418 pages
...our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion:— ' A day without too bright a beam, f A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.' Who can be seated upon the banks of the clear and tranquil Lea, enjoying so delicious a daybreak as... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 pages
...clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for • -> • >•.''•<• . , .: , .: ..•,.•:•! A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching, sun. •.•<M, ,.p HAL. — Whilst we have been conversing, the May flies, which were in such quantities,... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We'll prove it just, with treacherous... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...several times, in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...several times, in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
 | 1832 - 336 pages
...week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do , - With the most deadly killing fly : A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching...curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, — We '11 prove it just, with treacherous... | |
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We'll prove it just, with treacherous bait To make the preying Trout our prey. And think ourselves, in such an hour, Happier than those, though not so high, Who, like Leviathans, devour Of meaner men the smaller fry. 
