 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - 426 pagine
...for making artificial flies are prettily described by GAY, in his Poem on Rural Sports, as follows : 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagine
...day : You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the eurious fly. To (raтe just as short of reason ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peaeoek's plumes thy taekle must... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - 436 pagine
...are prettily described by GAY, in his Poem on Rural Sports, as follows : To frame the little ammal, 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... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pagine
...look into the day. You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. 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 plumes thy tackle must... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor. - 1826 - 438 pagine
...look into the day: You now a more delusive art must try, -And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pagine
...look into the day : You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thec ! sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | Charles Bowlker - 1826 - 164 pagine
...floating Hue, And all thy slender w«t'ry stores prepare." Thomson. Materials for making Artificial Flies. "To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let nature guide HUT. Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 pagine
...look into the day. You now a more delusive art must try. And tempt r heir hunger with the curious fly. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let nature guide thee ; sometimes golden win The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1830 - 438 pagine
...for making artificial flies are prettily described by GAT, in his Poem on [Rural Sports, as follows : 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... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pagine
...tenderhearted fabulist, Gay, himself a fly-fisher, are brought to bear : "To frame the fur- wrought fly, 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... | |
| |
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... 
