 | Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand ean do, With the most deadly killing Hie : A day, with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not...scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait, The scaly people to betray,... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1812 - 654 pages
...Perhaps a Week, wherein to try What the best Master's hand can do With the most deadly killing /•'///. A day, with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not...scorching Sun ; A southern gale to curl the stream ; And, Master, half our work is done. Then whilst behind some bush we wait, » The scaly people to betray,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...Perhaps a week wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing flic : A day. with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not...scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wart The scaly people to betray, —... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...a week wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing die : A Hay. with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream. And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, —... | |
 | Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1826 - 284 pages
...delightful morning for our sport; one lhat will justify my son Cotton's assertion :— .'A day without too bright a beam, A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.' Who can be seated upon the banks of the clear and tranquil Lea, enjoying... | |
 | Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1826 - 418 pages
...our sport; one that will justify my son Cotton's assertion:— ' A day without too bright a beam, f A warm but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.' Who can be seated upon the banks of the clear and tranquil Lea, enjoying... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 326 pages
...too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for • -> • >•.''•<• . , .: , .: ..•,.•:•! A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching, sun. •.•<M, ,.p HAL. — Whilst we have been conversing, the May flies, which were in such quantities,... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...Perhaps a week, wherein to try What the best master's hand can do With the most deadly killing fly: A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not...scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. There, whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray, —... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...several times, in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Chemistry - 1831 - 582 pages
...several times, in May and June, had to complain of too clear a sky, and wished, with Cotton, for ' A day with not too bright a beam ; A warm, but not a scorching sun.' " A very amusing and philosophical conversation on those natural phenomena, which have been vulgarly viewed... | |
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A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done. 
