 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 104по Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 383 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 страници
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling—as Dr. Boteler 1 said, of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.'' and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of them catches. I'll tell you,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 страници
...silver 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...berry, but doubtless GOD never did," and so, (if I may judge,) GOD did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. How sad it is... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 страници
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed my honest scholar we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries — "Doubtless God could have...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so I say, (if I may be judge,) God never did make amore calm, quiet, innocent, recreation than angling."... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 страници
...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 made a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 страници
...hours," such as these, " even as a shadow that passeth away and returneth not." Of a truth he thinks " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." And remembering an old lover of the sport, Sir Henry Wotton, and the verses, which at seventy years... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 372 страници
...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 made...angling. I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them, as Charles the emperor did of the... | |
 | 1863 - 478 страници
...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be; These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | 1863 - 362 страници
...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 страници
...book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that ' ' God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 страници
...Poetry, men are to be born so. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 1. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. lUd. Part i. Ch. 5. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth,... | |
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