 No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowe'd up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds...  Rambles by Rivers: The Avon - Page 169by James Thorne - 1845 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...pleasant as the life of a wellgoverned angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr Botelcr said of strawberries ; ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...eloquent and energetic of any in our language. venting or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, aj Dr.Botelersaid of strawberries,' Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but, doubtless,... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit en cowslips banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves...as much quietness as these silent silver streams, whkh we now see glide so quietly by us." ISAAC WAI/TON. Having, as mentioned in my last, dismissed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed tip with business, and the to so if I might be judge, * God never did make a mor - calm, quiet, innocent recreation tujm angling.1... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1832 - 334 pages
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sins, •'"d possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see j?lideso quietly by us." ISAAC WALTON. HAVING, as mentioned in my last, dismissed my loquacious female... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...as the life of a well governed angler : for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds H sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 350 pages
...as the life of a well governed angler : for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the bifds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 254 pages
...the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1835 - 496 pages
...OF EL PARDILLO THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. " When the lawyer is (wallowed up with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide to quietly by UB." IZAAK WALTOM. IM that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
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