The Angler and his Friend;+ or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions.
By the same Author, +The Angler in the Lake District;+ or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland.
Of course the claim sometimes put forward for Sannazzaro, as the inventor of the piscatory eclogue, ignores various passages in Theocritus, notably the twenty-first Idyl, whence he presumably borrowed the idea.
In the days when it was fashionable for men of learning to discuss the laws of pastoral composition, a certain northern giant fell foul of the Neapolitan's piscatory eclogues on somewhat theoretical grounds.
To his Italian work I shall have to return later; here it is his five Latin piscatory eclogues that demand notice.
There are, however, two defects in the piscatory eclogue, which perhaps cannot be supplied.
The Piscatory Eclogues are pastorals the characters of which are represented as fisher boys on the banks of the Cam, and are interesting for the light they cast on the biography of the poet himself (Thyrsil) and his father (Thelgon).
I doubt if Dryden was acquainted with the poems of Phineas Fletcher, whom honest Isaac Walton calls, "an excellent divine, and an excellent angler, and the author of excellent Piscatory Eclogues.
I will say nothing of the "Piscatory Eclogues," because no modern Latin can bear criticism.
This sally awakened the satire that ever lies ready in piscatory bosoms.
Piscatory was with him to the last, and the Queen, on parting from him, told him to tell Guizot that she owed to him all she had enjoyed of happiness for the last six years.
The King was reluctant, and Piscatory alone entreated him not to do so.
His birthday-celebration dinner, at which the New Year's piscatory phenomenon figures in the bill of fare.
Then and there he was first struck with the charms of the piscatory princess, as she exerted herself to entertain her father's guest.
The same provident care for the deceased that prevails among the hunting tribes of the prairies is observable among the piscatory tribes of the rivers and sea-coast.
Bold Navigators--Equestrian Indians and Piscatory Indians, Difference in Their Physical Organization.
The effect of different modes of life upon the human frame and human character is strikingly instanced in the contrast between the hunting Indians of the prairies, and the piscatory Indians of the sea-coast.
Whatever checks the ancient British may have had upon their piscatory appetites, there are happily none of any great consequence upon the modern, who delight in wholesome food of every kind.
Among them, one called Trimalcio was such an adept in his art, that he could impart to common fish both the form and flavour of the most esteemed of the piscatory tribes.
He was very communicative, having all the easy garrulity of cheerful old age, and I fancy was a little flattered by having an opportunity of displaying his piscatory lore, for who does not like now and then to play the sage?
Our first essay was along a mountain brook among the Highlands of the Hudson--a most unfortunate place for the execution of those piscatory tactics which had been invented along the velvet margins of quiet English rivulets.
I believe thou knowest no more of fishes than I do, but what do we care for piscatory lore.
Our first essay," says he, "was along a mountain brook among the highlands of the Hudson; a most unfortunate place for the execution of those piscatory tactics which had been invented along the velvet margins of quiet English rivulets.
Piscatory announced that the Mayor was refusing to allow Representatives who had arrived to enter the Hall.
Piscatory came in, who belonged a little to the Right and a little to the Left.
What with burying fish, climbing perch, and singing fish, Ceylon would seem to have rather more than her just share of piscatory curiosities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piscatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fishing; fishy; following; hunting; piscatory; searching
