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" The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. Now Cancer glows with... "
Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations - Page 182
by Robert Blakey - 1856 - 335 pages
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The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and ...

Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...silent stand^ Intent, his angle trembling in his hand : With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly fcreed, l the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honor to the world's great Author rise, Whe bright-eyed perch, with fins of Tyrinn dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes rolled, The yellow carp,...
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A grammatical chart

Walter William King - 1856 - 228 pages
...divisions are marked thus ( " ). Give an instance of -the Csesura dividing the line into two portions. The silver eel " in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp " in scales bedroped with gold. Again — See the bold youth " strain up the threatening steep, Rash through the...
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The American Angler's Guide: Or, Complete Fisher's Manual, for the United ...

John J. Brown - Fishes - 1857 - 396 pages
...It is true, OF THE UNITED STATES* " Their plenteous streams a various race supply : The bright eyed perch, with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, In shining volumes rolled, The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 352 pages
...fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand : With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork and bending...shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...frondos et non aua porno."— VIRO. 1 " I •; . . i ,.- 1 . . alta vitam sub nube relinquunt."— Vmo. by meagre famine driven. He wanders, outeast both of earth and heave bcdropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand ; With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork and bending...reed. Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. The bright-eyed perch, with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in...shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...the dancing cork and bending reed. 140 Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes rolled, The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains,...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...may be contested that this was the nature-painting of a Weenix or a Hondecoeter, not of a Turner : " Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-ey'd...shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry...
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Songs for Fishermen

Joseph Morris Bachelor - Fishing - 1922 - 344 pages
...fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork and bending...reed. Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp,...
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