 | George Canning Hill - Country life - 1867 - 354 pages
...ballads on the wall, and the white sheets of the hostess had such a sweet smell of lavender : — "I '11 now lead you to an honest alehouse, where we shall...windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall." This ideal inn, which Father Walton describes with such enticing simplicity, is the very one that,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1869 - 116 pages
...spot on his tail; and I'l be as certain to make him a good dish of meat, as I was to catch him. I'l now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windowes, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall; there my hostis (which I may tel you, is both cleanly... | |
 | Charles Hindley - Ballads, English - 1873 - 546 pages
...'Angler,' Piscator having caught a chub, conducts Venator to an ' honest ale house, where they would find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.' ' When I travelled,' says the Spectator, ' I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables... | |
 | James Thorne - Greater London (England) - 1876 - 430 pages
...immemorial. Major, in his ed. of the ' Complete Angler,' seeks to identify it with Bleak Hall, Isaak Walton's "honest alehouse, where we shall find a cleanly room,...windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall," and doubtless the original BleaTi Hall must have been here or at Broxbourne. But the present inn is... | |
 | James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 456 pages
...Major, in his ed. of the ' Complete Angler,' seeks to identify it with Bleak Hall, Isaak Walton's " honest alehouse, where we shall find a cleanly room,...windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall." and doubtless the original Bleak Hall must have been here or at Broxbourne. But the present inn is... | |
 | James Thorne - England - 1876 - 426 pages
...a parting cup — generally of porter. Another inn, named in our literature the "honest ale house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and 20 ballads stuck about the wall," with a " hostess both cleanly and handsome and civil," to which Piscator... | |
 | James Thorne - England - 1876 - 450 pages
...them a parting cup—generally of porter. Another inn, named in our literature the "honest ale house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and 20 ballads stuck about the wall," with a " hostess both cleanly and handsome and civil," to which Piscator... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardens in literature - 1878 - 316 pages
...Winter's Tale, act iv, sc. 3. The mention of Lavender always recalls Walton's pleasant picture of " an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly...Lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck against the wall, and my hostess, I may tell you, is both cleanly and handsome and civil." Whether... | |
 | Charles Hindley - 1878 - 498 pages
...'Angler,' Piscator, having caught a chub, conducts Venator to an ' honest ale house, where they would find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.' 'When I travelled,' says the Spectator, ' I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables... | |
 | J. P. Wheeldon - Fishing lodges - 1878 - 244 pages
...the gentle summer gale that comes laden with the breath of a thousand flowers, when he wrote of " the honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the window, twenty ballads stuck about the wall, and a hostess both cleanly and civil." It is a fitting... | |
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I'll now lead you to an honest Alehouse where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall... 
