 ... shrubs and fairest flowers. It is a great matter to take a trout early in your trial. It gives one more heart. It serves to keep one about his business. Otherwise you are apt to fall off into unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing...  Old Faces in New Masks - Page 313by Robert Blakey - 1859 - 391 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Blakey - Fishes - 1854 - 218 pages
...unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream— half seeing, half imagining — under some covert of overarching branches, where the...green above the water, and dark below it. * * * * But we must hasten 'on. A few more spotted spoils are awaiting us below. We make the brook again. We pierce... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Indiana - 1855 - 364 pages
...business. Otherwise, you are apt to fall off into unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining,...where the stream flows black and broad among rocks, with moss green above the water and dark below it. But let us begin. Standing in the middle of the... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 372 pages
...business. Otherwise, you are apt to fall off into unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining,...where the stream flows black and broad among rocks, with moss green above the water and dark below it. But let us begin. Standing in the middle of the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1855 - 632 pages
...business. Otherwise you are apt to fall off into an unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining,...branches, where the stream flows black and broad among the rocks, with moss-green above the water and dark below it. But let us begin. Standing in the middle... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 782 pages
...its lustre, but a transparent, black twilight, which softens nothing, but gives more ruggedness U> the rocks, and a sombre aspect to the shrubs and fairest...penetrates, there is yet the light of flowers. What place м so dark, that there is no lijjht, if we can only wait till the eye is used to its minute quantity!... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1858 - 228 pages
...unprofitable reverie; you wake up and find yourself standing iu a dream — half seeing, half imagining — under some covert of overarching branches, where the...green above the water, and dark below it. * * * * But we must hasten on. A few more spotted spoils are awaiting us below. We make the brook again. We pierce... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1860 - 228 pages
...unprofitable reverie; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream — half seeing, half imagining — under some covert of overarching branches, where the...green above the water, and dark below it. * * * * But we must hasten on. A few more spotted spoils are awaiting us below. We make the brook again. We pierce... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Art - 1873 - 472 pages
...reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining, under Borne covert of over-arching branches, where the stream flows black and broad among rocks, with moss green above the water and dark below it. But let us begin. Standing in the middle of the... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishes - 1898 - 328 pages
...unprofitable reverie ; you wake up and find yourself standing in a dream—half seeing, half imagining—under some covert of overarching branches, where the stream...green above the water, and dark below it. . . . But we must hasten on. A few more spotted spoils are awaiting us below. We make the brook again. We pierce... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 782 pages
...reverie; we wake up, and find ourselves standing in a dream, half-seeing, half-imagining, undersome covert of overarching branches, where the stream flows...penetrates, there is yet the light of flowers. What place u so dark, that there is no li§ht, if we can only wait till the eye is used to its minute quantity... | |
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