 | James Thomson - 1858 - 458 pages
...rccky-channel'd maze Down to the river, in whose ample wave Their little naiads love to sport at large. 400 And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1860 - 432 pages
...from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw nice-judging the delusive fly : And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted, plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Strait as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
 | American poetry - 1861 - 174 pages
...hollowed bank Reverted plays in undulating flow — 39 There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow : There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly ; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing gamo. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urg'd by hunger, leap,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1863 - 140 pages
...the hollowed bank Eeverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging,. the delusive fly; And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. 410 Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger... | |
 | George Charles L. Tottenham - 1868 - 526 pages
...the hollow'd bank, Reverted plays in undulating flow ; There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly, And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.' THOMSON. A COUPLE ef days after, the coach and pair arrived ; and took up their quarters... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There tlirow, nice-judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. 410 Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urg'd by hunger... | |
 | J. W. Meader - Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) - 1869 - 324 pages
...the hollowed bank Reverted, plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly, And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive, mark the springing game. Straight, as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or, urged by hunger,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1869 - 178 pages
...hollowed bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There thiow, nice judging, '--he delusiye fly; V.^i And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap,... | |
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With eye 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... 
