 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,...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 151edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 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...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... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1853 - 420 pages
...soul both of every angler and every man with good and emulous thoughts. " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling... | |
 | George Philip Rigney Pulman - Dialect literature, English - 1853 - 102 pages
...— ie Money. t When hired for the day. THE PLEASURES OF ANGLING. " No life, my honest scholar, — no life so happy and 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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1854 - 348 pages
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibteus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pages
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar! no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business,—and the statesman is preventing, or contriving, plots,—then, we sit on cowslip-banks,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1856 - 378 pages
...am iu love with thy ward already ! Iza. No life, believe me, no life so happy and pleasant as that of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is...the statesman. is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silver... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1856 - 366 pages
...scholar, and I will soon make thee in love with my art ! Art. (aside) I am in love with thy ward already ! swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silver... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 pages
...following language to his honest scholar, in defence of his noble art. "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 in business, and the statesman in preventing... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1859 - 342 pages
...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...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1860 - 394 pages
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech tree : no life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver... | |
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