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" Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though... "
English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration - Page 344
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 14

1823 - 782 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened...love and propensity to the art itself; but having onoe got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will ptovc to be so pleasant, that it will prove...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it? for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be...bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a (1) This is a mistake : it was Aucepi, and not Venator, that named the H*wki ; and Aucepi had before...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it? for angling is. somewhat like poetry, men are to be bom so : I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be...practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must ict only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but e must bring a large measure of hope and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14

1823 - 772 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; 18230 but havhig onoo got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will pure to be so pleasant,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14

1823 - 858 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom go : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but lie that hopes to be a good Angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit ; but...
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Death's Doings; Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions, in ..., Volume 1

Richard Dagley - 1828 - 562 pages
...ignorance, in the following words : — " Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ;" and "he that hopes to be a good Angler, must not only...patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself." Socius. I verily believe, Piscator, that had Izaak Walton resided among us Wintonians at an earlier...
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Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the ...

Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it; for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice ; but \* that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened...only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, J but he must bring a large * Fish may be sharp sighted enough within the sphere of their vision but...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 pages
...you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat \ like poetry, — men are to be born so : I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice i , but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an ' inquiring, searching, observing...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1835 - 348 pages
...whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened...searching, observing wit,+ but he must bring a large « Fish may be sharp sighted enough within the sphere of their Vision ; but from the great projecting...
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