 | John Buchan - 1896 - 170 pàgines
...dame Nature secm'd in love : CompiS* The lusty sap began to move ; Angfer." Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines, And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous trout that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled flie ; There stood my friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill.... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pàgines
...had drawne their Valentines : The lealm/s Trout, that low did lie. Rose at a wel-dissembled l-'lic : There stood my friend, with patient Skill Attending of his trembling quill. Already were the Eaves possest With the swift Pilgrims daubed nest. The Groves already did rejoyce In Philomels triumphing... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1897 - 548 pàgines
...sat a-Fishing," he very likely refers to Walton, for he is doubtless the " friend " of these lines : The jealous Trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well...with patient skill Attending of his trembling quill. Probably a reminiscence of one of the many fishing excursions Walton and his friend used to make together... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1898 - 184 pàgines
...spring morning he glances along the river bank for the companion of " his idle time, not idly spent" : " And now all nature seemed in love; The lusty sap began...valentines; The jealous trout that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly: There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill." The... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 340 pàgines
...sat a fishing. AND now all Nature seemed in love. The lusty sap began to move! New juice did stir th' embracing vines; And birds had drawn their Valentines ! The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly! There stood my friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill! Already... | |
 | Arthur William Fox - 1899 - 514 pàgines
...Reliquiae, pp. 348, 855, 370 and 471. The jealous trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly; There stood my friend, with patient skill Attending of his trembling quill. Already were the eaves possest With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest. The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's triumphing... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pàgines
...And birds had drawn their Valentines ! The jealous trout, that low did lie. Rose at a well-dissembled fly ! There stood my friend, with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill ! Already were the eaves possest With the swift pilgrims' daubed nest ! The groves already did rejoice In PHILOMEL'S triumphing... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1900 - 270 pàgines
...Wotton wrote these lines, " on a banck as he • sate a-fishing," when he was over seventy years of age: "And now all nature seemed in love ; The lusty sap...valentines ; The jealous trout that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly : There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill."... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1900 - 230 pàgines
...— " This day Dame Nature seemed to love : The lusty sap began to move ; Fresh juice did stir th1 embracing vines, And birds had drawn their valentines. *' The jealous trout that low did lie, Rose at the well-dissembled fly : There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill."... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1900 - 270 pàgines
...And birds had drawn their valentines ; The jealous trout that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly : There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill." The friend was Izaak Walton himself, who quotes the verses. Wotton, Walton tells us, " was a constant... | |
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Nature seem'd in love: The lusty sap began to move; Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines, And birds had drawn their valentines, The jealous Trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well dissembled fly; There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending... 
