Zoeken Afbeeldingen Maps Play YouTube Nieuws Gmail Drive Meer »
Inloggen
Boeken Boek
" 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 1
door James R. Babb - 2002 - 224 pagina’s
Gedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek

The national reading books, adapted to the government code ..., Volume 5

National reading books - 1871 - 232 pagina’s
...fancy himself miles away in the country in company with Izaak, when, to use his own expressive words, " we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us." But Izaak thought so much of going fishing, that at times he forgot the pain, or rather torture to...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Outre Mer. Driftwood

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 pagina’s
...me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman a 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. IN that delicious season when the coy and capricious...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Who Will Save Her. A Novel

Watts Phillips - 1874 - 276 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." Peter Applethwaite, who was a good listener as well as talker — the former qualification being a...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 866 pagina’s
...me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. 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 ihese silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. TN that delicious season...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Luton, Past and Present: Its History and Antiquities

Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - 176 pagina’s
...of a well-governed angler ; tor 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 ourselves of as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Report, Volume 5

New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 528 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...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

The Quarterly Review, Volume 139

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 646 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...quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see * ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. i. t In allusion to his generic name, Thymallus. j ' Compleat Angler,'...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon

George Dawson - 1876 - 314 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...now see glide so quietly by us. — [Izaak Walton. Abused mortals, did you know Where joy, heart's-ease and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon

George Dawson - 1876 - 316 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. — \Izaah Walton. Abused mortals, did you know "Where joy, heart's-ease and comforts grow, You'd scorn...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek

Lichene from an Old Abbey: Being Historical Reminiscenses of the Monastery ...

1876 - 340 pagina’s
...\vellgoverned angler; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries, "doubtless...
Volledige weergave - Over dit boek




  1. Mijn bibliotheek
  2. Help
  3. Geavanceerd zoeken naar boeken