 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 852
...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...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr Botelcr said of strawberries ; ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...eloquent and energetic of any in our language. venting or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, aj Dr.Botelersaid of strawberries,' Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but, doubtless,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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...Doubtless " God could have made a better berry, but doubt" less God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit en cowslips banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, whkh we now see glide so quietly by us." ISAAC WAI/TON. Having, as mentioned in my last, dismissed... | |
 | J. Coad - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sins, •'"d possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see j?lideso quietly by us." ISAAC WALTON. HAVING, as mentioned in my last, dismissed my loquacious female... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — * Doubtless God could have...but doubtless God never did ; ' and so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling,"— IZAAC WALTON.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves 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 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...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,... | |
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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,... 
