| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide by us." Piscator then enlivens their conversation by relating... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...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 quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. Is that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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...quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but... | |
| Alfred Elliott - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...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...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 1038
...light and shade ; nor is it a river near which, in company with old Walton, to sit ' on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver silent streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.' OT Thus the ancient poetry, taught... | |
| Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...praise of the strawberry Dr. Young always thought inimitable, and would cite the passage with go&t : " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bxit doubtless God never did.' " But Dr. Young's great book was Boswell's Johnson, which he used to... | |
| New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...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, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ; Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
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