 | National reading books - 1871 - 232 страници
...company with Izaak, when, to use his own expressive words, " we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us." But Izaak thought so much of going fishing, that at times he forgot the pain, or rather torture to... | |
 | 1872 - 480 страници
...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cow-slip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us." The authority of Isaac Walton, upon all matters pertaining to the science of angling, no one will question.... | |
 | Charles Shearer Keyser - 1872 - 186 страници
...or contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;" and it is truly said of angling, what Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if we maybe judges, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling, nor, it may... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 254 страници
...strawberries. The strawberry is, for a child, the king of fruits. I)r Boteler once quaintly said of it, that " doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," — meaning thereby that the strawberry is, as a fruit, as near perfection as anything in this world... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 страници
...business, and the statesman a 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. IN that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 706 страници
...Fuller, one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Win. Butler, a celebrated but eccentric physician, born at Ipswich about 1535.... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 638 страници
...one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written •* Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bnt doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Wm. Butler, a celebrated but ewentric phybician,... | |
 | Watts Phillips - 1874 - 276 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...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us." Peter Applethwaite, who was a good listener as well as talker — the former qualification being a... | |
 | Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - 176 страници
...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 —... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 528 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...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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... 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... 
