 There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun both rise and set : There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away : And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.  The Complete Angler - Page 105by Izaak Walton - 1901 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...by him, and eat my meat, There fee the fun beth rife and fet : There bid good morning to next dayt There meditate my time away : And angle on, and beg to have A quiet paffage to a welcome grave. When I had ended this compofure, I left this place, and faw a brother of... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - Thames River (England) - 1792 - 452 pages
...near Shawford brook ; " There fit by him, and eat my meat, w There fee the fun both rife and fet : " There bid good morning to next day, " There meditate...away : " And angle on, and beg to have •' A quiet paiTag^e to a welcome grave." ISAAC WALTON, the author of the Complete Angler, from which this extraft... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...princes' courts I would rejoice. Or with my Bryan,* and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford-brook ; There sit by him and eat my meat, There see the sun...and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. * Laverock, lark. • Supposed to be the name of a favourite dog. JAMES SHIRLEY, Was born in London,... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...princes' courts I would rejoice. Or with my Bryan, * and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford-brook : There sit by him and eat my meat, There see the sun...and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 1 Laverock, lark. JAMES SHIRLEY Was bom in London, about 1594, educated at Merchant Taylor's school,... | |
 | Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...princes' courts, I would rejoiee ; Or with my Bryan, and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat ; There see the...and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Walton. EPIGRAM. On a dissatisfied, ill-tempered, Man. STILL restless, still chopping and changing... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...princes' courts, I would rejoice. Or with my Bryan, and my book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook, There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun...beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. When we reflect how much the best and purest feelings of mankind are daily sacrificed to the furtherance... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...courts, I would rejoice : Or, with my Bryan,* and a book, Loiter loug days near Shnwfnrd-brouk ; * There sit by him, and eat my meat. There see the sun...There meditate my time away; And angle on ; and be.g lo have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. When I had ended this composure, I left this place, and... | |
 | 1823 - 732 pages
...-hang his basket at his back, ajid sally foith alone to rivers By whose falls, • To meditate his time away, And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Melodious birds sing madrigals. He must be able to plash about in the wet reeds, and the long dank... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...Princes' courts, I would rejoice, Or, with my Bryan, and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford-brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun...place, and saw a Brother of the Angle sit under that honey-suckle-hedge, one that will prove worth your acquaintance ; I sat down by him, and presently... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...Princes' courts, I would rejoice, Or, with my Bryan, and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford-brook ; There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun...a welcome grave. When I had ended this composure, 1 left this place, and saw a Brother of the Angle sit under that honey-suckle-hedge, one that will... | |
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