 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 swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing,...  The Book of the Thames: From Its Rise to Its Fall - Pagina 436door Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 460 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1822 - 850 pagina’s
...communes with his admiring young angler, while he initiates him into the mysteries of the art. — " No life, my honest scholar — no life so happy and so...banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 pagina’s
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant...is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preHarvie, MA" The presumption, th-refore, is very strong, that both were •written by the Christopher... | |
 | 1835 - 426 pagina’s
...'other person. Hear what old Izaak Walton, the father of all honest anglers says and sings, — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant,...lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 518 pagina’s
...cares-under this Sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did under their broad Beech-tree. No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant,...is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 pagina’s
...attentions. PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS, IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. t " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyr . is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...Virgil's Tit y rus and his Melïbœiis did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest acholar, obert Chambers tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 pagina’s
...door, and lose myself with it in the shades of the woodland. There I indulge in solitary musing ; and, "when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then I sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess myself in as much quietness as the silent... | |
 | J. Coad - 1832 - 334 pagina’s
...PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy nnJ so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler;...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 pagina’s
...beech tree. 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 swallowed up with...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 - 1833 - 350 pagina’s
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did under their broad beech tree. 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 swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
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