 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
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 pagina’s
...is preventing^ or contr1v1ng plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds~smg, anTi~possess ourselves 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... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1902 - 214 pagina’s
...of a wellgoverned 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. ND only a day ; my first acquaintance with that renowned stream. I have been trying to trace on an... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 362 pagina’s
...well-governed angler ; for when ' the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the states' man 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 pagina’s
...business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hearing the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us." For the Puritan side of this divided age, the name of John Milton stands, in literature, almost alone;... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 524 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... | |
 | Arthur Tysilio Johnson - 1907 - 180 pagina’s
...life of a wellgoverned 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, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr Boteler said of strawberries/Doubtless God could... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - 1909 - 422 pagina’s
...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...these silent silver streams, which we now see glide by us." And the birds delight him as well as the streams and all their fishes. The lark rises from... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 296 pagina’s
...watch him in the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, " we sit on 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... | |
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