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...hook, and the gorgeous colouring frequently given by poets to the employment of the angler. Egypt:;* The pleasant'st angling is, to see the fish Cut with...silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous barb. A fisherman with his rod and line, in a boat, from an antique in the Maffei Collection at Verona,...

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...describes " the contemplative man's recreation " as if he had enjoyed it :• — " The pleasantest angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars...stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait." * The oldest books upon angling have something of that half poetical, half devout enthusiasm about...

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...him who would catch fish ; for though, as Shakspearc jiisllyobserves, " The pleasant'et angling ig he blossom that hangs on the bough." Act v. sc. 1....That all these elementary spirits were agents only Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. sc 1. yet are we so frequently disappointed of this latter spectacle,...

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