 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
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 762 strani
...deaths, he speaks of statement 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 strani
...the enthusiastic Piscator may wander, he always returns to the central theme, the praise of angling. 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... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 strani
...together they eat their rural breakfast, and thus Piscator continues his praises of their occupation : " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1885 - 588 strani
...grows toward supper-time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. "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... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - 1886 - 268 strani
...when he is seeking to show the superiority of fishing, as a field sport, over hunting, he declares : " 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... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 strani
...love this charming sport, In this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1888 - 244 strani
...love this charming sport. In this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business^and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 strani
...cares under this Sycamore, as Virgils Titynis and his Melibceus did under their broad Beech tree : No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy, and so pleasant as the Anglers, unless it be the Beggers life in Summer ; for then only they take no care but are as happy... | |
 | Kit Clarke - 1889 - 144 strani
...creatures that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler." The world and civilization have advanced since Walton toyed beside the Dove, and that saint of good... | |
 | 1893 - 780 strani
...MDCCVIIIC. 193 is IZAAK WALTON— 1593-1683. BY PROF. WF STOCKLEY. Of tho University of New Brunswick. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks and hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
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