 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 Dawson - 1876 - 314 strani
...full measure, I will not regret that they have been given a form which was not originally intended. GD 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... | |
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 strani
...wore the last of the dishonoured mitre of Paisley. LORD LYELL'S GIFT. No life, my honest scholar—no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a wellgoverned...up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as... | |
 | 1876 - 340 strani
...that Lord Claude, the boy abbot, wore the last of the dishonoured mitre of Paisley. LORD LYELL'S GIFT. No life, my honest scholar — no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a \vellgoverned angler; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
 | 1876 - 882 strani
...RECEIVED. THE PLEASURES OF ANGLING, by George Dawson. (Sheldon & Co.) According to old Isaak Walton, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ;" and to read of its enjoyments, as one may in the charming volume before us, it does indeed seem... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 strani
...man may be supposed to have uttered that sentiment so dear to every brother of the gentle craft—"No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves of as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 strani
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibreus 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 , so if I might... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 strani
...Virgil's Tilyru.-* and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. Xo life, my honest "cliolar. no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed auirler ; for when tlte lawyer ia swallowed up with business, and thp statesman is preventing or contriving:... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 758 strani
...deaths, he speaks of statemen's plots, plans, and troubles, and says in soundless words of triumph, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler," who sits on cowslip banks, hears the birds sing, and possesses himself in as much quietness as does... | |
 | 1902 - 1028 strani
...bird — I'd like to know — Jim Crow? THE PASSING OF KEENOOSH-AW OGEEMAH By Marstyn Pollough-Pogue " No life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler." — Izank Walton. UNDER the water, in the dim, umbergreen deeps among the looming weeds, he was king,... | |
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