Excerpt from The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing, In Two PartsAnd no man imagine, that a work on such a subject must necessarily be unentertaining, or tri¿ing, or even uninstructive, for the congery will most evi dentl ap r, from a perusal of t is excellent piece, whio w we consider the elegant simplicity of the style them and unaffected humour of the dialogue, the love y scenes which it delineates, the enchanting pastoral poetry which it contains, or the fine morality tt so sweetly inculcates - has hardly its fellow in any of the modern languages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.