 Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation,...  Angling Idylls - Side 54af George Christopher Davies - 1876 - 204 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 sider
...God could have made a better berry, but '' doubtlefs God never did :" and fo, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, "• quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." I'll tell you, fcholar, when 1 fat laft on this 'primtofe-bank, and looked down thefe meadows, I thought... | |
 | 1822 - 850 sider
...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ;' and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." Perhaps some of your readers may here ask, am I as eagerly devoted to the sports of the field as to... | |
 | 1835 - 426 sider
...Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but, doubtless, God never did ;' and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. " I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose hank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 sider
...God could have made a better berry, but doubt" less God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent " recreation, than Angling." I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these Meadows, I thought... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 254 sider
...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; ' and so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." — IZAAC WALTON. " I call a river enriched with inhabitants, where rocks are landlords, and trouts... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 sider
...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' And so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. " I tell you, when I sat last on this primrose bank and looked down these meadows, I thought that they... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 sider
...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ;' and so (if I might be judge) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." Roses, not fenced with pricks, grow here, No sting to th' honey bag is near ; But what's perhaps their... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 sider
...• /it ef*rf,uf tivini fiillh (hint minf rifff; ,1mt tiir niit Liiiht in ihis nS,.»i-uii -fhinff. God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than Angling. I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 sider
...God could have made a better berry, but doubt" less God never did : " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent " recreation, than Angling." I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank,' and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 sider
...could have inado ' " a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" ' and so (if I might be judge,) God never did ' make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation ' than angling.' PAINTER.— Every word is true. And what a thankful heart my master has ! ANGLER. — Aye, truly; and... | |
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