 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
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pagina’s
...wellgoverned 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... | |
 | 1876 - 800 pagina’s
...the water, with his bright, blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Izaak Walton's Angler, "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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 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...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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 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...hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much , so if I might be jndge, ' God never did make a mor" calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 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... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pagina’s
...praises of their occupation : " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the 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. Bnteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1885 - 588 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...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... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1886 - 268 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. Botcler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless God... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 pagina’s
...swallowed up with business — and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess...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... | |
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