 ... fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art So the gay lady, with expensive...  The New sporting magazine - Page 2701868Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea, and air ; Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. 190 Mark well the various seasons of the year, How the succeeding insect-race appear ; In this revolving... | |
 | Alexander Mackintosh - 1815 - 262 pages
...promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea, and air ; Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. GAY. To make the useful artificial flies, furnish yourself with a pocket-case, that has many partitions... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...the growing insect proper wings ; Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art : So the gay lady, with expensive...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays I We now returned to our inn to dinner, where a trout and a grayling made a part of the repast ; and... | |
 | 1819 - 426 pages
...fisher's art. So the gay lady with expensive care Borrows the pride of land, of sea, of air, Furs, pearls, plumes, the glittering thing displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. The maritime plants which flow«r in July, are the club rush (scirpus maritimus), bearded cat's tail... | |
 | Alexander Mackintosh - 1821 - 264 pages
...promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea, and air ; Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. GAV. To make the useful artificial flies, furnish yourself with a pocket-case, that has many partitions... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 pages
...the growing insect proper wings; Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art: So the gay lady, with expensive...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays." f While I listen to thy voice, Chloris, I feel my life decay ; That powerful noise Calls my fleeting... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...the growing insect proper wings; Silks of all colours must their aid impart. And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art: •So the gay lady, with expensive...pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing displays, While I listen to thy voice, Chloris, I feel my life decay ; That powerful noise Calls my fleeting... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - 426 pages
...the growing insect proper wings : Silks, of all colours, must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. CHAP. III. A List of Palmers, or Hackle Flies, with and without Wings, for Fly-fishing in every Month... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1825 - 436 pages
...every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of laud, of sea, of air — Furs, pearls, and plumes the glittering...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. CHAP. III. A List of Palmers, or Hackle Flies, with and without Wings, for Fly-fishing in every Month... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pages
...promote the nsher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea, and air; Furs, pearls, and plume.-s, the glittering thing...displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays. Mark well the various seasons of the year, How the succeeding insect race appear; In this revolving... | |
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