 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,...  Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress - Pagina 1door James R. Babb - 2002 - 224 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 pagina’s
...pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler — for when the lawyer is swallowed up in business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots —...then we sit on cowslip banks — hear the birds sing, & possess ourselves in as much quietness, as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 pagina’s
...contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries," Doubtless God... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 402 pagina’s
...when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide by us." Piscator then enlivens their conversation by relating... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 pagina’s
...me." THE VILLAGE OP EL PARDILLO. When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman. is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. Is that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1867 - 490 pagina’s
...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...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 pagina’s
...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...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a... | |
 | 1868 - 1038 pagina’s
...variety of hue and tone, light and shade ; nor is it a river near which, in company with old Walton, to sit ' on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver silent streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.' OT Thus the ancient poetry, taught... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 526 pagina’s
...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...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ; Doubtless God could have made... | |
 | 1872 - 520 pagina’s
...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 cow-slip...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us." The authority of Isaac Walton, upon all matters pertaining to the science of angling, no one will question.... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 246 pagina’s
...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...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made... | |
| |
