 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...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...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr Botelcr said of strawberries ; ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, aj Dr.Botelersaid of strawberries,' Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but, doubtless,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...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...Doubtless " God could have made a better berry, but doubt" less God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...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 silver streams, whkh we now see glide so quietly by us." ISAAC WAI/TON. Having, as mentioned in my last, dismissed... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1832 - 334 pages
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sins, •'"d possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see j?lideso quietly by us." ISAAC WALTON. HAVING, as mentioned in my last, dismissed my loquacious female... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 260 pages
...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,...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — * Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 254 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — ' Doubtless God could have...but doubtless God never did ; ' and so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." — IZAAC WALTON.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1835 - 496 pages
...and th.> 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 to quietly by UB." IZAAK WALTOM. IM that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...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...these silent silver streams which we now see glide so smoothly by us. Indeed we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...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...doubtless God never did : " and so, if I might be judge. ^ A i «< 1 .1 m '• SONG. Compo»«l byX. L axu*arv,. / ->' ii.ii,iit ]•'•',. in fm .-l\: f»&lff... | |
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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... 
