 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
 | George Loftus Tottenham - 1868 - 380 pages
...stone, or from the hollow'd bank, 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.' THOMSON. A COUPLE of days after, the coach and pair arrived ; and took up their quarters in the inn.... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There tlirow, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. 410 Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1869 - 178 pages
...hollowed bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There thiow, nice judging, '--he delusiye fly; V.^i And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye...by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the hai-bed hook: 41C Some lightly t^ui'ing to the grassy brink, And to the shelving shore slow dragging... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...stone, or from the hollowed bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the e of evanescence I Posthumous man, — who quit'st 0 b ius above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...stone, or from the hollow'd bank 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. 410 Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger leap, Then fix,... | |
 | Francis Francis - Fishing - 1874 - 440 pages
...shore, or from the hollowed bank Beverted, 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. And there he springs sure enough. Thomson must have had this spot in his mind when he wrote these lines.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Dick Lauder - Rivers - 1874 - 382 pages
...stone, or from the hollow'd bank 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, urged by hunger, leap, Then fix, with... | |
 | Francis Francis - Fishing - 1874 - 448 pages
...hollowed bank Keverted, plays in undulating flow. There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly : And as yon lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive, mark the springing game. And there he springs sure enough. Thomson must have had this spot in his mind when he wrote these lines.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 672 pages
...the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw nice-judging the delusive fly And as you lead it round in artful curve,...springing game. Straight as above the surface of the fluud They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix with gentle twitch the barbed hook: Of pendent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1875 - 646 pages
...stone, or from the hollowed bank 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.' t But here the question arises, is he to fish up or down ? Direful is the controversy that has raged,... | |
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