 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 83avtor: James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 180 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 254 strani
...my honest scholar, no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler ; for while the lawyer is swallowed up with business, 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 strani
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melihceus 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... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 strani
...themselves ; and let me tell you that this kind of fishing is like putting money to use. No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed...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... | |
 | 1842 - 584 strani
...confirmatory of his full claim to originality of early formation. THE ANGLERS' CONVIVIAL. BY HALIFUS. " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of • well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the •talesman is... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 strani
...Izaak Walton terms a recreation that invites to contemplation and quietness. " No life," he says, " so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 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...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, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 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...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... | |
 | 1844 - 520 strani
...poetry — a man must be born to it ;" while the felicitiesof its practice he rates equally high : — " 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... | |
 | 1845 - 688 strani
...identical with the Carrion Crow of England, as it was supposed to be, is original with him. WALTONIANA. No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...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 these... | |
 | 1845 - 732 strani
...Carrion Crow of England, as it was supposed to be, is original with him. 1845.] [April, WALTONIANA. No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...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 these... | |
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