 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
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1882 - 756 pages
...deaths, he speaks of statemen's plots, plans, and troubles, and says in soundless words of triumph, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler," who sits on cowslip banks, hears the birds sing, and possesses himself in as much quietness as does... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1882 - 762 pages
...deaths, he speaks of statement plots, plans, and troubles, and says in soundless words of triumph, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler," who sits on cowslip banks, hears the birds sing, and possesses himself in as much quietness as does... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American fiction - 1885 - 588 pages
...grows toward supper-time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. "When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us." IZAAK WALTON. IN that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | James Johonnot - Zoology - 1886 - 244 pages
...this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - Fishing - 1887 - 276 pages
...scholar, no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler,—there we sit in cowslips, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Isaac Walton. Isaac Walton being so well known,... | |
 | James Johonnot - Animals - 1888 - 244 pages
...this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "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 may sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Kit Clarke - Trout fishing - 1889 - 144 pages
...created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler." The world and civilization have advanced since Walton toyed beside the Dove, and that saint of good... | |
 | 1893 - 780 pages
...WALTON— 1593-1683. BY PROF. WF STOCKLEY. Of tho University of New Brunswick. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks and hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1893 - 402 pages
...me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman it preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. IN that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | James Samuel Stone - Derbyshire (England) - 1894 - 238 pages
...Piscator, and to the songs of the milkmaid ; and we hear Walton himself say: " 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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