| John Jackson Manley - 1883 - 176 páginas
...attentive mark the springing game, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urged by hunger, leap Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various hand proportion'd... | |
| 1883 - 356 páginas
...attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urged by hunger, leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some With various hand proportion'd... | |
| 1883 - 718 páginas
...attentive mark the springing game, Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urged by hunger, leap Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various hand proportion'd... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 192 páginas
...attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportioned... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 páginas
...attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of tl>e flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank. And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various hand proportioned... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 páginas
...mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood 410 They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook, — Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportioned... | |
| 1896 - 532 páginas
...With Eye attentive mark the springing Game. Strait as above the Surface of the Flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by Hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle Twitch, the barbed Hook ; Some lightly tossing to the grassy Bank, And to the shelving Shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd... | |
| John Buchan - 1896 - 170 páginas
...eye attentive mark the springing game, Straight as above the surface of the flood, They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger, leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some With various hand proportioned... | |
| William Mathews - 1896 - 364 páginas
...angling for trout ; and — " Straight, as above the surface of the flood, They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore dragging some, With various hand proportion'd... | |
| William Mathews - 1896 - 368 páginas
...angling for trout ; and — " Straight, as above the surface of the flood, They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore dragging some, With various hand proportion'd... | |
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