 | 1844 - 520 страници
...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...doubtless God never did :' and so, if I might be judge, 1 God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'" Walton's argument in favour... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 страници
...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...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,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson, William Shaw - 1844 - 794 страници
...right when he said, "No life is BO luippy aad so pleasant as that of a well governed angler." Ind«ed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bat doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might judg , God never did make « more calm, quiet, innocent... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 страници
...in 1653. statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...God never did :' and so, if I might be judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." Walton's argument in favour of... | |
 | 1845 - 688 страници
...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...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... | |
 | 1845 - 732 страници
...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by иs. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries: " Doubtless... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 страници
...' or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip * banks, bear the birds sing, and possess our' selves in as much quietness as these silent ' silver streams, which we now see glide so ' quietly l>y us. Indeed, my good scholar, we ' may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of ' strawberries, "... | |
 | 1846 - 824 страници
...preventing or contriving plot«, then sit we on cowslip banks," says this fine old fellow, "hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. I tell you, scholar," he continues, warming with the subject, " when last I sat on this primrose bank,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 страници
...the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds «ing, cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttons there must...the eating, nor it is not the drinking, that is t liod could have made a better berry, but doubtless (¡od пстег did ;w and so (if I might be judge)... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 страници
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds nog, «id possess o m ingling as Dr Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtleu Cod could have made a better berry, but doubtlan... | |
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... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have... 
