 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
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pagina’s
...the * The first edition of the ' Complete Angler ' was published in l•2mo., in 1653. 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... | |
 | 1845 - 688 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...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... | |
 | 1845 - 732 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...silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by иs. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries: " Doubtless... | |
 | John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pagina’s
...as 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 ourselves in as mueh quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 pagina’s
...' or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip * banks, bear the birds sing, and possess our' selves in as much quietness as these silent ' silver streams, which we now see glide so ' quietly l>y us. Indeed, my good scholar, we ' may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of ' strawberries, "... | |
 | 1846 - 824 pagina’s
...statesman is preventing or contriving plot«, then sit we on cowslip banks," says this fine old fellow, "hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. I tell you, scholar," he continues, warming with the subject, " when last I sat on this primrose bank,... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 pagina’s
...preventing and contriving plots, then we set on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess onrselves 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...of a well-governed ugler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with botines*, and the statesman is @ nog, «id possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is If they have not what «ing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 386 pagina’s
...15 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...birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness aa these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK W ALTOS. IN that delicious... | |
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