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" And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam: now is the time, While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, Snatch'd from the hoary... "
Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations - Page 182
by Robert Blakey - 1856 - 335 pages
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The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence

James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...rise. Besides, who knows, how raised to higher life, From stage to stage, the vital scale ascends. Now, when the first foul torrent of the brooks, Swell'd...vernal rains, is ebb'd away, And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctured stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time, While yet the dark-brown water...
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The Seasons

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - Seasons - 1842 - 378 pages
...Now, when the first foul torrent of the brooks, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebb'd away — 380 And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctur'd stream...dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, Snatch'd from the hoary steed the floating...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - English poetry - 1842 - 384 pages
...rise: Beside, who knows, how rais'd to higher life, From stage to stage, the vital scale ascends ? Now, when the first foul torrent of the brooks, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebb'd away— sso And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam—now^is the time,...
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The seasons & Castle of indolence, by Thomson. The farmer's boy, Rural tales ...

James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...the brooks, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebb'd awa>, And, whit'ning, down their mossy-tin ctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time. While yet the dark-brown water aids the gnile, To tempt the trout. The well dissembled fly, The rod, fine tap'ring with elastic spring, Snatch'd...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...presumptuous strain, Whose wisest will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rise. his female train, Pensive, and dripping ; while the...recks the storm that blows Without, and rattles on his well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, Snatch'd from the hoary steed the floating...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...presumptuous strain, Whose wisest will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rise. mossy-linctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam : now is ihe time, While yet the dark-brown waier...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 2-3

Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...the brook?, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebbed away, And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctured stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time, While yet the dark-brown water aids Iho guile To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod — fine-tapering with elastic spring...
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The seasons, ed. with notes by A.T. Thomson

James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...rise : Besides, who knows, how rais'd to higher life, From stage to stage, the vital scale ascends ? Now, when the first foul torrent of the brooks, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebb'd away — 380 And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctur'd stream Descends the billowy foam — now is the...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...brooks, Swelled with the vernal rains, is ebbed away, 25 And, whitening, down their mossy-tinctured stream Descends the billowy foam : now is the time,...dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, 30 Snatched from the hoary steed the...
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson

James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...rise. Besides, who knows how, raised to higher life, From stage to stage the vital seale aseends 1 Now, when the first foul torrent of the brooks, Swell'd with the vernal rains, is ebb'd away, 380 And, whitening, down their mossy-tinetured stream Deseends the billowy foam ; now is the time,...
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