 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,...  Trout and Salmon Fishing in Wales - Страница iiпо George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 223 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1822 - 850 страници
...honest scholar — no life so happy and so pleasant as the 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 in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 страници
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 страници
...scholar, no life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyr . is swallowed up 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...the lawyer is swallowed tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then + so if I might be judge, * God never did make a mor - calm, quiet, innocent recreation tujm angling.1... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 страници
...the lawyer is (wallowed up with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and...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 - 328 страници
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - 1835 - 328 страници
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 страници
...money to use. No life is 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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 страници
...quietness. " No life," he says, " 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 cowslips' banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
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