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
| 1914 - 722 pagina’s
...up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...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... | |
| 1914 - 696 pagina’s
...up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...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... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 750 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...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... | |
| Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark - 1920 - 730 pagina’s
...the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, 'we sit on the cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silent silver streams which we see glide so quietly by us.' During the ordinary business of the... | |
| John Buchan - 1923 - 746 pagina’s
...up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...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... | |
| Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 pagina’s
...business, — and the statesman is preventing, or contriving, plots — then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us." The Worthies of England, by Thomas Fuller, is also a notable book on account of its interesting information... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1925 - 502 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...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of Angling, as Dr. Roteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless Cod... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1925 - 304 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...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us." Or yet again, this amazingly unmodern account of 65 the origin of his book: "I sat quietly by a calm... | |
| 1863 - 406 pagina’s
...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...sing, and ' possess ourselves in as much quietness as those silent silvery streams ' we now see glide so quietly by.' ' self in a frog-like attitude and... | |
| National Recreation Congress - 1940 - 200 pagina’s
...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, and possess our selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by... | |
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