 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 - Side 83af James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 180 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1822 - 850 sider
...communes with his admiring young angler, while he initiates him into the mysteries of the art. — " No life, my honest scholar — no life so happy and...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, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 sider
...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...is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preHarvie, MA" The presumption, therefore, is very strong, that both were written by the Christopher... | |
 | 1835 - 426 sider
...any 'other person. Hear what old Izaak Walton, the father of all honest anglers says and sings, — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 sider
...cares under this Sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibaeus 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... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 sider
...attentions. PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS, IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. t " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyr . is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...Virgil's Tit y rus and his Melïbœiis did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest acholar, obert Chambers tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 sider
...door, and lose myself with it in the shades of the woodland. There I indulge in solitary musing ; and, "when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then I sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess myself in as much quietness as the silent... | |
 | Esq. Gregory GREENDRAKE (pseud. [i.e. J. Coad? or Henry Brereton Cody?]), J. Coad - 1832 - 334 sider
...PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy nnJ so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler;...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sins, •'"d possess ourselves in as much quietness... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 sider
...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...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds H sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 sider
...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 pleasant as the life of a well governed angler : for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
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