...strain : — " The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with Iho prey they take : And once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the uien their prize." Turn we now (o Walton's inimitable work on angling, which for (rue poetry in his...

...Whose sweet calm course I contemplate, And seek in life to imitate." J. DAVORB. PISCATOR'B SON«. " The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." WALLER. MR. CHUBB was not, by habit and repute, a fisherman. Angling had never been practically his...

...it was, in the reign of Charles II., the practice of ladies to angle. " Beneath, a shoal of silyer fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges'...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." — Waller, " Poem on St. James's Park," lately improved by His Majesty. — H. in a much cleaner and...

...silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges sides ; The ladies angling in the chryetal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." The best satirical piece on angling, that appeared early in this century, 1708, was Tfte Contemplative...

...silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges sides ; The ladies angling in the ehrystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious, with their Hues and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." The best satirical piece on angling,...

...their watery haunts, vividly reminding me of those lines of Izaak Walton, or Cotton, I knownot which— The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize. And, verily, I think some of my male acquaintances must have been somewhat smitten with the fair anglers'...

...are many proofs, and among others the following lines by Waller, from a poem on St. James' Park. •' The ladies angling in the crystal lake Feast on the...eyes. They make the fishes and the men their prize." Having made these preliminary remarks, I shall now proceed to notice the " gentle crafte." That fly...

...a large one, is yet a pond, it was, in the reign of Charles II., the practice of ladies to angle. " Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." — Waller, " Poem on St. James's Park," lately improved hy His Majesty.— H . [Pond-fishing is not...

...though a hirgc one, is yet a pond, it was, in the reign of Charles II., the practice of ladies to angle. "Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays...their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men tUeir prize." possible this should be so situated that it may receive the drainings of a village, or...

...means, too, are practised in either case, for Waller thus describes angling in St. James's Park : — " The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the...eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize." We have digressed towards that saintly friend to the post-office. To resume. Little sport can be expected...