 Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation...  The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts, Music ... - Page 271835Full view - About this book
 | Edward Payson Roe - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 324 pages
...Angler." " Indeed, my good schollar," the serene Izaak writes, " we may say of angling as Dr. Poteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." If this was true of the wild Wood strawberry, how much more so of many of our aromatic rubies of to-day.... | |
 | Edward Payson Roe - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 324 pages
...got ; Such, growing abroad, among thorns in the wood, Well chosen and picked, prove excellent good." strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." If this was true of the wild Wood strawberry, how much more so of many of our aromatic rubies of to-day.... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1880 - 918 pages
...in the Strawberries (Fig. 12), which secured the full admiration of Dr. Boteler, who declared that " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did " — a remark the correctness of which will probably be viewed proportionately by the F[s- "• STRAWBERRY.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...us. odeed. my (rood scholar, we may any of angling as l)r. Botelt r said of strawberries, ' Dprbtlesa God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :' and BO if I might be judge, ' God never did make a nior calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.'... | |
 | Natural history - 1881 - 396 pages
...Walton, in his quaint way writes, "Indeed my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler says of Strawberries. Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God nerer did." Spenser, in his Faery Queen, says : — One day as they all three together \fent, Into... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...loved him. b. WALTOH— The Complete Angler. Pt. I. Ch. V. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. c. WALTON— The Complete Angler. Pt. I. Ch. V. ANIMALS. The jackal's troop, in gather'd cry, Bay'd... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...loved him. b. WAI/TON— The Complete A;wler. Pt. I. Ch. V. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said Like a »age astronomer, j. WOBUSWORTH— To the .S'maü...their glory; Long as there are violets, They will ha n> creation than angling. c. WALTON— The Complete Angler. Ft. I. Ch. V. ANIMALS. The jackal's troop,... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1882 - 756 pages
...the ghost, " we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries — 4 doubtless God could nave made a better berry, but doubtless God never did !' and so, if I might be judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." Again, in fancy see the ghost-angler... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...loved him. b. WALTON— The Complete Angler. Pt. I. Ch. V. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said yt ;" imd su, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than imgling.... | |
 | Morrison Wood - Cooking - 1964 - 322 pages
...stir in a tablespoon lemon juice and 2 ounces fine brandy. Blend well, then pour over pears and serve. "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," is the way Dr. Boteler characterized strawberries as reported by Izaak Walton in The Compleat Angler.... | |
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