 To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require: The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail....  The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Page 272redigeeritud poolt - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1835 - 348 lehte
...peacock 's plumes thy tackle must not fall, Nor the dear purchase of the sable'* tail ; Each gandy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends 'the growing insect proper wings ; Sllka of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art : So the gay lady,... | |
 | John Kirkbride (Writer on fishing) - 1837 - 156 lehte
...Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require. The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail...all colours, must their aid impart, And every fur, promote the fisher's art." GAY. I shall proceed here to give the amateur a description of fly-making.... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 lehte
...wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail. Nor th« dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird...brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silk» of all colours must their aid impart. And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady,... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 lehte
...guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle mnst not fail. Nor the dear purchase of the...tribute brings. And lends the growing insect proper wing* : Silks of all colours mir their aid impart. And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay... | |
 | 508 lehte
...Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require : The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail....gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the glowing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fair promote the... | |
 | William H. Schreiner - 1841 - 162 lehte
...Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plume, thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail....all colours, must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art." — GAY. viz., hackle feathers (being those that hang from the head, down... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 lehte
...sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly reqaire ; The peacock's plumea thy tackle must not fail. Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail....: Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 lehte
...sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must g God, and fall To worship their own work in wood...High vouchsafes To call by vision, from his lather's colors must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So ihe gay lodv, wilh excessive... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Salter - 1841 - 428 lehte
...Sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require. 2 u 2 The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail. Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail ; Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, Aud lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks, of all colours, must their aid impart, And every... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 lehte
...sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must @ colors must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art. So the gay lady, with excessive... | |
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