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" ... hungry ; he hereth the melodyous armony of fowles ; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and many other fowles, wyth theyr brodes ; whyche me semyth better than alle the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis,... "
The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson - Page lx
by Izaak Walton - 1832
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The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...furely then is there noo man " merier than he is in his fpyryte." At the beginning of the dire&ions, how the angler is to make his harnays, or tackle, he is thus inftrudted to provide a rod : " And '' how ye Ihall make your rodde craftly, " here I {hall teach you....
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Bibliomania, Or, Book Madness ; a Bibliographical Romance, in Six ..., Volume 1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1811 - 828 pages
...not the ' catlanplatite,' art of fishing — because we are informed that ' Yf the angler take fyshe, surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyry te.' 1 ! Yet Isaac Walton called this art, ' The Contemplative Man's Recreation.' But a book-Jinlurmau,...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...offoulis, that hunters fawktnsrs, and f outers can make. And if the Angler take fysshe ; surely, thtnne, is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte....Rod: And how ye shall make your rodde craftly, here 1 shall teche you. Ye shall kytte betweene Myghetmas and Candylmas, a fayr stajfe, of af 'adorn and...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...the scrye of faults, that hunters fawkeners, and f outers can make. And if the Angler takefysshe ; surely, thenne, is there noo man merier than he is...tackle, he is thus instructed to provide a Rod : And Ana ye shall make your rodde craftly, here I shall teche you. ye shall kytte betweene Myghetmas and...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...thenne, is there noo man merier than he ii in his spyryte. At the beginning of the directions, lima the angler is to make his harnays, or tackle, he is...to provide a Rod : And how ye shall make your rodde crafily, here I shall teche you. Ye shall kytte betweene Myghetmas and Candylmas, a fayr staffe, of...
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The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle

Juliana Berners - Fishing - 1827 - 78 pages
...and the fcrye of foulis that hunters: fawkeners and foulers can make. And yf the angler take fyflhe: surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his fpyryte. If Alfo who foo woll vfe the game of anglynge : he muft ryfe erly, whiche thyng is prouffytable...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 2

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...blastes of hornys, and the scrye of fowles, that hunters, fawkeners, and foulers, can make. And if angler take fysshe, surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.' The Book of St. Albans contains ' Treatises perteynynge to Hawkynge and Huntynge,' as well as ' Fisshynge...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 1

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 644 pages
...the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of fowles, that hunters, fawkeners and foulers can make. And if angler take fysshe, surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his gpyryte." Walton's inimitable discourse on angling was first printed in 1653, in an elegant duodecimo,...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

English literature - 1832 - 336 pages
...the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and foulers can make. , And if the Angler take fysshe...the angler is to make his harnays, or tackle," he is tlius instructed to provide a rod : " And how ye shall make your rodde craftly, here I shall teche...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and fowlers can make. And if the angler take fysshe ; surely,...rodde craftly, here I shall teche you. Ye shall kytte betweene Myghelmas and Caudylmas, a fayr staffe, of a fadom and an halfe longe, and arme-grete, of...
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