 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,...  Woods and Dales of Derbyshire - Stran 81avtor: James Samuel Stone - 1898 - 180 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1822 - 850 strani
...communes with his admiring young angler, while he initiates him into the mysteries of the art. — " No life, my honest scholar — no life so happy and...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, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 strani
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preHarvie, MA" The presumption, therefore, is very strong, that both were written by the Christopher... | |
 | 1835 - 426 strani
...any 'other person. Hear what old Izaak Walton, the father of all honest anglers says and sings, — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 strani
...cares under this Sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibaeus did under their broad Beech-tree. No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so...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 strani
...attentions. PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS, IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. t " No life, my honest 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...Virgil's Tit y rus and his Melïbœiis did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest acholar, obert Chambers tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 strani
...door, and lose myself with it in the shades of the woodland. There I indulge in solitary musing ; and, "when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then I sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess myself in as much quietness as the silent... | |
 | J. Coad - 1832 - 334 strani
...PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy nnJ so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler;...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sins, •'"d possess ourselves in as much quietness... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 strani
...beech tree. 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...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds H sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 strani
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did under their broad beech tree. 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... | |
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