 Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation...  The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... - Страница 106по Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 383 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Erin Murphy - 1999 - 164 страници
...doesn't. — Mallory Burton The river is as far as I can move from the world of numbers. — Jim Harrison God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton He and Albert never considered bamboo rods as things. No, they were the inanimate... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 страници
...stray. It is memorialized in The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, who quotes Dr. William Boteler: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." DG Cooley, however, in Rat and Get Slim (1945), warns, "One man's strawberries are another man's hives."... | |
 | Carol Byrd-Bredbenner - 2002 - 218 страници
...Vitamin C 87%DV. FRESH TASTES FROM THE GARDEN STATE 34 Of the strawberry, William Butler remarked, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Although fresh, lush strawberries don't need any help, they are divine on these moist coconut pillows.... | |
 | Phyllis A. Balch CNC - 2003 - 324 страници
...as well as your appetite. CHAPTER EIGHT FABULOUS FRUITS . . . AND BODACIOUS BERRIES The Strawberry: Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. — Dr. William Butler, seventeenth-century English writer Fresh fruits and berries add color, variety,... | |
 | Ruth Cullen - 161 страници
...• Mil •!!•! • II • I BREAKFAST BLENDS LIQUID LUNCHES AFTERNOON DELIGHTS breakfast blends... Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. WILLIAM BUTLER, DESCRIBING THE STRAWBERRY You can't go wrong with this tangysweet, berry blend. Add... | |
 | Robin Robertson - 2003 - 598 страници
...a freshly picked strawberry still warm from the /\sun has to agree with William Butler, who wrote, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Strawberries are said to have gotten their name from the English practice of placing straw around the... | |
 | Glen A. Love - 2003 - 228 страници
...regard as a restorative pastoral experience—camping beside, and fishing, a lovingly remembered river. "God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling," said Isaac Walton in The Compleat Angler (262), but Hemingway's Nick Adams is looking for something... | |
 | 2004 - 250 страници
...chiefest charms. JAMES HENSHALL BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS (1881) We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." IZAAK WALTON THE COMPLEAT ANGLER (1653) II icaJ I Matt ers A man can be a fish hog with a fly rod as... | |
 | Derek Quilliam - 2000 - 272 страници
...said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;' as so (If I might be judge) 'God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' IZAAC WALTON - The Compleat Angler e to ew /Zealand ures erek \Uuilliam Published by The Halcyon Press... | |
 | Derek Quilliam - 1999 - 262 страници
...e\v Ijealand Jnroul £T2r ures This one Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;' as so (If I might be judge) 'God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'... | |
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