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Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations - Page 120
by Robert Blakey - 1856 - 335 pages
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 246 pages
...dance unto the rural Muses; And, but in music's sports, all difference refuses. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets...The smooth-leav'd beeches in the field receive him f With coolest shades, till noon-tide's rage is spent: . His life is neither tost in boist'rous seas...
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English 18th Century Dances, Volume 2

Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...dance unto the rural muses And but in music's sports all difference refuses. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets...smooth-leav'd beeches in the field receive him With coolest shades till noon-tide's rage is spent : His life is neither tost in boisterous seas Of troublous world,...
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The Purple Island, a Poem

Phineas Fletcher - English poetry - 1816 - 214 pages
...unto the rural Muses ; And but in music's sports, all difference refuses. V. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content : The smooth leav'd beeches in the field receive him With coolest shades, till noon-tide rage is spent :...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 44

England - 1838 - 884 pages
...Fletcher's stanzas, however, are " beautiful exceedingly" — as these two declare. " His certain life that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets and rich content : The smooth leaved beeches on the field receive him With coolest shades, till noon-tide rage is spent :...
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Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...dance unto the rural Muses; And but in music's sports all difference refuses. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets,...smooth-leav'd beeches in the field receive him With coolest shades, till noon-tide rage is spent : His life is neither toss'd in boist'rous seas Of troublous world,...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...wants his middle fortune bite : But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets,...noon-tide's heat be spent. His life is neither tost in boist'rous seas, Or the vexatious world ; or lost in slothful ease. Pleas'd and full blest he lives,...
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Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists, Volume 2

Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 416 pages
...life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content ; The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him With coolest shade,...noontide's heat be spent. His life is neither tost in boisterous seas Or the vexatious world ; or lost in slothful ease. Pleased and full blest he lives...
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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
...certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content; The amooth-leav'd beeches in the field receive him, With coolest shade,...noon-tide's heat be spent. His life is neither tost in boist'rous seas, Or the vexatious world ; or lost in slothful ease. Pleas'd and full blest he lives,...
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Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists, Volume 2

Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...AUTHOR'S FAREWELL . . 393 BRACEBRIDGE HALL. VOL. II. ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMEN. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content ; The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him With coolest shade, till noontide's heat he spent. His...
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The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton:: Extensively ...

Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...wants, his middle fortune bite, But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets,...till noon-tide's heat be spent : His life, is neither toss'd in boisterous seas, Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease ; Pleas' d and full blest...
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