 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 sidor
...from one of those ancient champions of angling, which breathes the same innocent and happy spirit: Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent...see my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 538 sidor
...from one of those ancient champions of angling, which breathes the same innocent and happy spirit: Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent...Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink, With enger bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; Ami on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive... | |
 | John J. Brown - 1849 - 250 sidor
...of conteutedness." Joe Davors,* who wrote about the same time, runs prettily off in this style : " Let me live harmlessly ; and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling place; Where I may see my quill or cork down sink, With eager bite of perch, or roach, or... | |
 | John Jay Brown - 1849 - 404 sidor
...of contentedness." Joe Davors,* who wrote about the same time, runs prettily off in this style : " Let me live harmlessly ; and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling place ; Where I may see my quill or cork down sink, With eager bite of perch, or roach, or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1850 - 534 sidor
...from one of those ancient champions of angling, which breathes the same innocent and happy spirit : Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may Bee my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 488 sidor
...from one of those ancient champions of angling, which breathes the same innocent and happy spirit : Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent...see my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 sidor
...Angler, and the commendation of his happy life, which he also sings in verse ? viz. Jo. Davors, Esq. Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon, have a dwelling place; Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager hite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 sidor
...Nor what was meant a nosegay, make a load." MR. BISHOP, Master of the Merchant Tailors School, 1796. LET me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent...see my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace; And on the world and my Creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1852 - 242 sidor
...such thing. He only cried, " Quack ! quack! quack!" Bit. &Jjuhli. A PISCATOKY KOMANCK. CHAPTER I. " Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling place, Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace."... | |
 | David Badham - 1854 - 578 sidor
...Avon) to the simile — I never saw a fool lean ; the chub-faced fop Shines sleek with full-cramm'd fat of happiness ; the L. vulgaris (dace), which comes...sink. With eager bite of perch, or bleak, or dace ; the red-eyed rudd, L. cryophthalmus ; the azurine, L. * Several of these small and apparently insignificant... | |
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With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace; And on the world and my creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war or wantonness. 
