 Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is, rather, whether you be capable of learning it? For angling is somewhat like poetry — men are to be born so...  A Bundle of Papers - Seite 234von Paul Siegvolk - 1878 - 326 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 Seiten
...doubt not to catch a- brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfaft : doubt not therefore, Sit, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning : the queftion is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is fomewhat like poetry, men... | |
 | 1823 - 782 Seiten
...Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an...Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 Seiten
...Merlin is bold;1 and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that angling is an...for angling is. somewhat like poetry, men are to be bom so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice :... | |
 | 1822 - 592 Seiten
...are born to angling, as they arc to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 Seiten
...are born to angling, as they are to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | 1822 - 600 Seiten
...are born to angling, as they are to poetry, and that without a genius for it they cannot succeed ; " for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so." Finally, he has little doubt that a person thus gifted is equally capable of all other good works.... | |
 | 1823 - 772 Seiten
...Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an...Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that... | |
 | 1823 - 858 Seiten
...Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not, therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an...for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom go : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ;... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 518 Seiten
...Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast: doubt not therefore, Sir, but that Angling is an art,...Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that... | |
 | 1828 - 560 Seiten
...timorous than the high mettled Merlin is bold !" The question is, as its darling champion has observed, " Whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling...is somewhat like poetry — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice. But he that... | |
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