 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 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 % require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pagine
...look into the day : You cow 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pagine
...and become that useful feather called the yellow dun." We sum up with the elegant lines of Gay :— " 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pagine
...delusive art must try, And tempt their hunger with the eurious fly. HOW TO HAEE THE AETIFICIAL FLT. d ; The rustic youth, brown with meridian toil, Healthful and strong ; lull as the summer-rose Blown b ; sometimes golden wire The shining belKes of the fly require : The peaeoek's plumes thy taekle must... | |
 | John J. Brown - 1857 - 396 pagine
...So just the colors shine in every part. That nature seems to live again in art." And also — l\ ** 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... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1858 - 400 pagine
...tender-hearted fabulist, Gay, himself a flyfisher, 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 340 pagine
...excuse the following addition to this note, for the sake of a beautiful description of the material uaed in fly-making, which is quoted from the above-mentioned...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... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1860 - 360 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 thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes the tackle must... | |
 | Book - 1862 - 216 pagine
...description of oui- four plates of Flies and Implements of Angling. " To frame the fair-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 hackle must... | |
 | 1866 - 300 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... | |
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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... 
