 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
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 strani
...says Mr. Walton ; and now let me read you these natural thoughts out of his book. — Here it is: ' 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... | |
 | John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 strani
...exorcists, the Poet, from the sculptur'd halls of the imagination. RURAL SKETCHES. ANGLIANA, No. IV. " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as a well-governed angler ; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 strani
...— a man must be born to it ;" while the felicities of 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 * The first edition... | |
 | 1846 - 824 strani
...to believo with the venerable old Father of the angle, there is no life so happy and so pleasant ; " for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plot«, then sit we on cowslip banks," says this fine old fellow, "hear the birds sing, and possess... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 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...up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we set on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess onrselves in as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 strani
...cares uiuler this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibœus did under their broad beech tree. he other liked not, or what the other had bought before, so ал the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 strani
...Tityrus and his Melibœus did under their broad beech tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life »o e, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 strani
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibœus did under their broad beech tree. as we can endure it, they grow up to ulcers and pestilential...killed with the pressure of a little finger. lie that h then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 strani
...grows towards supper-time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PABDILLO. 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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
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