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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ... - Page 1317
by William Hone - 1841 - 2 pages
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The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the ...

Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...birds in the adjoining grove feemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whofe dead voice feemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrofe-hill ; there I fat viewing the filver ftreams glide filently towards their center, the tempeftuous...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 19

1799 - 958 pages
...ad« joining grove feemed to have a '•friendly contention with an echo, • whofe dead voice feemed to live « in a hollow tree, near to the brow < of that primrofe hill j there I fat • viewing the filver fireams glide » filently towards their center,...
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...verdant meadows. Look, under the broad beech tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have...to live, in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill; there 1 sat viewing the silver Streams glide silently towards their center, the tempestuous...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...broad beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining groves seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo,...to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill; there I sat viewing the silvar streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill; there I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently...centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots and pebble-stones, which broke their waves and turned them into foam: and sometimes I...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...broad beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining groves seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in se hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill; there I sat viewing the silver streams glide...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

1809 - 954 pages
...broad beech-tree, 1 sat ' down, when I was* last this way 1 a-fishing, and the birds in the ad' joining grove seemed to have a ' friendly contention with an echo, ' whose dead voice seemed (o live ' in a hollow tree, near to the brow 4 ofthat primrose hill ; there I sat ' viewing the silver...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 14

England - 1823 - 782 pages
...verdant meadows. " Look, under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way afishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have...tree, near to the brow of that primrose-hill ; there I gat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 49

England - 1841 - 928 pages
..." Look! under that broad beechtreo I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing: and the birds Jn the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention...to live in a hollow tree near to the brow of that primrose hill. There I sat, viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous...
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows. near to the brow of that primrose-hill. There I sat...centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots and pebble-stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam. And sometimes I...
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