I doubt not to catch a brace or two tomorrow, for a friend's breakfast: 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... The Complete Angler and Huntsman - الصفحة 19بواسطة Thomas Hubert Hutton, Stanley Blake - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 265عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is fomewhat like poetry, men are to be born fo : I mean? •with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by difcourfe and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, muft not only bring an enquiring, fearching,... | |
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...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,...bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a (1) This is a mistake : it uras Auceps, and not Ptnator, that naned the '«ks; and Aucep& had before... | |
| Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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 bom so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice :... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...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.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...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.... | |
| 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...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 bom go : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ;... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...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,...may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but \* that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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, and must not only bring an inquiring, observing wit, but also a large measure of hope and patience.... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...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,...only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, J but he must bring a large * Fish may be sharp sighted enough within the sphere of their vision but... | |
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