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 hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - 第467页1823全本阅读 - 图书信息
| Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 256 页
...Walton says it is with angling. " He that hopes to be a good angler," says that pleasant optimist,* " must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing...love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 页
...: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself,' is only a little less extravagant than Markham, who assures us, in his Country Contentments, that the... | |
| 1873 - 284 页
...Dennys in his mind, when he speaks of the inward qualities which a elever angler should possess : " He that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an enquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - 316 页
... PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY .. . : ' ' s Sri ROD AND REEL TROUT AND SALMON. BY GEORGE DAWSON. He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring...and patience, and a love and propensity to the art it'elt; but having once got and practised it, then doubt «ot but that -Angling will be so pleasant... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - 312 页
...DAWSON. He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, bot he must bring a large measure of hope and patience,...love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised ft, then doubt not but that Angling will be BO pleasant that It will prove to... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - 314 页
... ( IV .,• ROD AND REEL TROUT AND SALMON. BY GEORGE DAWSON. He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, bat he must bring a large measure of hope ami patience, ami a love and propensity to the art Itsell;... | |
| George Christopher Davies - 1876 - 226 页
...; I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring and observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 页
...: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...love and propensity to the art itself;" but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove... | |
| James Alexander Henshall - 1881 - 480 页
...a bait-fisher, it is not every one that can learn the fly-fisher's art; for, continues Walton, " he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practiced it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove... | |
| William Mathews - 1881 - 358 页
...it in practice the most tedious of all ways of killing time. Honest Izaak justly declares that " he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself." Markham, in his " Country Contentments," goes still further, and quaintly assures us that " the angler... | |
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