 To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require: The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail....  The Table Book - Pagina 811di William Hone - 1827 - 870 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Best - 1804 - 208 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee, sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor ttie dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1808 - 204 pagine
...hues that watt on female pride. Let Nature euide thee : sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle...: Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. GAY. J THE COMPLETE FLY-FISHER, CHAP. I. 'Observations concerning... | |
 | Thomas Best - 1808 - 210 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride. Let Nature guide thee : sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must...tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wing* : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art GAY. THE... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pagine
...pride : Let Nature gnide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; 180 The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Eaoh gaudy hird some slender tribute brings, Vud lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride : Let nature guide thee : sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle...wings: Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with excessive care, Borrows the pride of land,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride ; Let nature suidc thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of tch'd himself, he play'd the man, And so may'st thou, illustrious Passeran ! purchace of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings. And lends the growing insect... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle...tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wines: Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's artSo the gay... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pagine
...hues that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden vire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle...tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And (ends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart. And every fur promote... | |
 | Alexander Mackintosh - 1815 - 262 pagine
...that wait on female pride ', iLet nature guide thee, sometimes golden wire, The shining bellies of the fly require. The peacock's plumes thy tackle must...wings. Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land,... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1815 - 422 pagine
...Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require. The peacock's plumes thy tackle must uot fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail ;...Silks, of all colours, must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land,... | |
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