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Walton's "Piscator" indulges in a pipe at breakfast, and "Venator" has his tobacco brought from London to insure its purity. Sweet Izaak could have selected no more soothing minister than the pipe to the "contemplative man's recreation." As the new sedative gains in esteem, we find Francis Quarles, in his "Emblems," treating it in this serio-comic vein:
It is worth noticing also that a distinction was now drawn between the fisherman and the fishmonger the man who caught the fish and he who sold it piscator and piscarius; and in the vocabulary itself the leonine line is cited: "Piscator prendit, quod piscarius bene vendit." The whale was considerably brought into requisition for gastronomic purposes.
"Piscator, But, look you, sir, now you are at the brink of the hill, how do you like my river, the vale it winds through like a snake, and the situation of my little fishing-house?" The Complete Angler. As John Hardy drove up to the front of Hardy Place, the young Danish lad was struck with the beauty of the lawns and shrubberies. "This is by far prettier than Rosendal, Herr Hardy," he said. Mrs.
It was fortunate for me that I had my "Noctes Ambrosianae" along, for when I had exhausted my praise of the surrounding glories of nature, my bookseller would not converse with me; so I opened my book and read to him that famous passage between Kit North and the Ettrick Shepherd, wherein the shepherd discourses boastfully of his prowess as a piscator of sawmon.
"There is little need to thank me," said Hardy. "I have learnt much from your father, and am thankful for it; but I hope with time to win the same kindly trust from him as you already possess, and I think deservedly." Helga never forgot these words. They echoed in her recollection through the winter months, and Kapellan Holm was nowhere. "Piscator.
Catching trout is strictly a summery pleasure, and when indulged in at any other season should be visited by Summary punishment. There are numerous treatises on angling, but in "JOHN BROWN'S Tract" the youthful Piscator will find the best of Guides. It often happens that trout do not begin to bite till late in the day, in which case it is advisable to make the most of the commencement de la Fin.
Piscator and his friend Venator pursue their talk under a honeysuckle hedge or a sycamore-tree during a passing shower.
I have been dressed this half hour, for I rested so well and have so great a mind either to take or to see a trout taken in your fine river that I could no longer lie a-bed. "Piscator.
He who labours for posterity in the fields of research, must look to posterity for his reward. Nay, even they whose business is with the feelings and the fancy, catch most fish when they angle in shallow waters. Is it not so, Piscator? Montesinos. In such honest anglers, Sir Thomas, I should look for as many virtues, as good old happy Izaak Walton found in his brethren of the rod and line.
You may recall that the milk-women of Kent told Piscator when he came at the end of his day's fishing to beg a cup of red cow's milk, that anglers were "honest, civil, quiet men." I have, also, a habit of contemplation, which I am told is proper to an angler. I can lean longer than most across the railing of a country bridge if the water runs noisily on the stones.
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