 No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned 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,...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2311844Full view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...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 preHarvie, MA" The presumption, th-refore, is very strong, that both were •written by the Christopher... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...— " 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 in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...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 sit en cowslips banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed tip e + so if I might be judge, * God never did make a mor - calm, quiet, innocent recreation tujm angling.1... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melihreus did under their broad beech tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds H sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 350 pages
...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...contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the bifds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 254 pages
...my honest scholar, no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler ; for while the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness, as... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1835 - 496 pages
...OF EL PARDILLO THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. " When the lawyer is (wallowed up with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide to quietly by UB." IZAAK WALTOM. IM that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
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