River angling for salmon and trout. With a memoir of the author [&c.].

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Pagina xxxvii - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Pagina 149 - In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too, some other use.
Pagina xliii - Compound for sins they were inclined to. By damning those they had no mind to.
Pagina 144 - Account of experimental observations on the development and growth of salmon-fry from the exclusion of the ova to the age of two years.
Pagina 132 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Pagina 128 - ... clear water, and in the same kind of water ; although in the end of April, when it comes into use, it may sometimes be used with advantage in deeper streams. It may be baited upon a common worm hook, passed through it side ways and back again, or upon a couple of hooks of a smaller size, one of them sideways through the shoulders, and the other in the same way through the lower part of the body. Towards the end of May it is a most effective bait for large trouts, when brought skilfully into the...
Pagina 71 - X blue-bottle in effigy, for instance, was any such mystery ; yet hear what our St. Boswell's friend says on the subject :-— " Despairing to give any practical idea by mere description of the manner of dressing flies, it might, perhaps, be as well to refrain from attempting it.
Pagina 201 - Fifteenth Day of February in the Year following, except by means of the Rod and Line, with the Artificial Fly only, nor with the Rod and Line at any Time between the Thirtieth Day of November in any Year, and the First Day of February in the Year following...
Pagina 150 - ... and this pike falling so suddenly and entirely off, and its case also filling up immediately after spawning; as well as the dark red colour of the whole body of the male changing to a pale silvery grey, till one cannot distinguish male from female. The cause of so remarkable changes being unknown to us, need we wonder that the still more complex construction of the genitals, and of the manner of their use, should to this day be unascertained...

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