With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook... The Saturday Magazine - Page 2411841Full view - About this book
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly, 40^ And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix, with... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...ruisseau, commence la rivière, 3. 20 Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, "With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix, with... | |
| Thomas Best - 1807 - 208 pages
...delusive fly, With eye attentive mark the springing game: And as you lead it round in artful curve, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix with gentle twitch the barbed hook; Some lightly tossing to the grassy... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...stone, or from the hollow'd bank Pi everted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful...above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the burbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...stone, or from the hallow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve,...above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Thru fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy... | |
| Thomas Best - 1808 - 210 pages
...the stone, or from the hollow bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly, And as you lead it round in artful curve,...above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix with gentle twitch the barbed hook; Some lightly tossing to the grassy... | |
| Thomas Best - Fishing - 1808 - 204 pages
...from the hollow bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice judging, the delusive fiy, And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye...attentive mark the springing game : Straight as above the Siirfa.ce oi'the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix with gentle twitch the... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, \\illi rye attentive mark the springing game, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, nrg'd by hunger, leap, Tlien fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the... | |
| James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...the springing came. Straight as above the snrface of the flood They wanton rise, or, nrg'd by hnnger, leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy back, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some With varions hand proportion'd to their force. If... | |
| James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...fly; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise,...leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : ir-ome lightly tossing Id the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various... | |
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