 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pagina’s
...THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. " When the lawyer is (wallowed up with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide to quietly by UB." IZAAK WALTOM. IM that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - 1835 - 328 pagina’s
...no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler, — there we sit in cowslips, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Isaac Walton. Isaac Walton being so well known,... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - 1835 - 328 pagina’s
...no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler, — there we sit in cowslips, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Isaac Walton. Isaac Walton being so well known,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 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...these silent silver streams which we now see glide so smoothly by us. Indeed we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pagina’s
...• well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the •talesman is preventing or contriving plots— then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and at night retire to some friendly ale-house, where the landlady is good, and the daughter innocent and... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 pagina’s
...swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as those silver streams which we now see glide as quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling, as Dr.... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 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... | |
 | 1844 - 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 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 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 "... | |
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