 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 sider
...contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 sider
...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 silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. Is that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1867 - 490 sider
...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...quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 sider
...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...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1868 - 468 sider
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
 | 1868 - 468 sider
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 586 sider
...praise of the strawberry Dr. Young always thought inimitable, and would cite the passage with go&t : " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bxit doubtless God never did.' " But Dr. Young's great book was Boswell's Johnson, which he used to... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 526 sider
...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...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ; Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
 | 1871 - 726 sider
...At the commencement dinner, in 1869, Mr. Samuel Burnham, of Boston, said that Dr. Boteler remarked of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." And when Mr. Burnham applied the illustration to the President, the company accepted its fitness by their... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 246 sider
...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...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
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... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have... 
