| Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...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 my good scholar, we may say of anglers, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries —... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 866
...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 quietness as ihese silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. TN that delicious season... | |
| New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...allusion to his generic name, ThymaUut. j ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. vi. § Ibid. Part I. cap. v. glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we...Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could havo made a better berry, but God never did ; " and so (if I might bo judge), " God never did make... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...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...quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see * ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. i. t In allusion to his generic name, Thymallus. j ' Compleat Angler,'... | |
| Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...briefly. It was in this speech that the poet Pierpont applied to Kansas the saying, of Dr. Boteler of strawberries: " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." MAY 27. — Gov. Walker reaches Lecompton, via Lawrence, and issues his Inaugural Address. It was a... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...with business, and the statesman is preventing and 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 Doctor Boteler said of strawberries, "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
| Paisley abbey - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...with business, and the statesman is preventing and 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 Doctor Boteler said of strawberries, "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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. — \Izaah Walton. Abused mortals, did you know "Where joy, heart's-ease and comforts grow, You'd scorn... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...of crystal waters, with no other companions than rod and reel, singing birds and slimmer zephyrs. " As Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God...berry, but doubtless God never did;' and so, if I may be judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than Angling." But it would... | |
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