 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 280 pagine
...Pale blue - 9. Willow fly and coch-y-bondy - - 9.orlO. General flies - - - 8. or 9. Sewin flies - - 5. To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues...that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee. Sometimes golden wire The glittering bellies of the flies require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 pagine
...look into the day. You now a more delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the carious 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 pagine
...beautiful description of the muteJiuls used in 'fly-making, whieh ia quoted from the above mentioned poem. To frame the little animal, provide All the...that wait on female pride : Let nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shinrnir bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes tby tackle must... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 pagine
...look into the day. You BOW 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 goldea wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must... | |
 | John Kirkbride (Writer on fishing) - 1837 - 156 pagine
...artificial flies, hooks, gut, feathers, silk, and dubbings, a necessary accompaniment. ON FLY-MAKING. " 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... | |
 | 508 pagine
...tenderhearted fabulist, Gay, himself a fly-fisher, are brought to bear: "Toframe the fur-wrought fly,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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 514 pagine
...valuable. In brief, or as Huiue says, " to sum up the tottle," I quote the poet Gay's lines : — " 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 William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pagine
...pocket-case, containing materials such as Gay describes as necessary for the art of imitating nature : — " To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let nature guide thcc ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes the tackle... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 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... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1841 - 428 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. 2 u 2 The peacock's plumes thy tackle... | |
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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... 
