 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1892 - 486 pages
...Professor Gray. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 350 pages
...strawberry shows itself among the bridal gifts, many of us exclaim for the hundredth time with Dr. Boteler, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Nature, who is God's handmaid, does not attempt a rival berry. But by and by a little woolly knob,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Richard Aldington, Norman T. Gates - Literary Collections - 1992 - 422 pages
...The Compleat Angler, Oxford, 1915, part 1, chap. 5, p. 120, where William Butler is quoted as saying of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." 1 1 . Jean Francois Marmontel, Memoirs of Marmontel, trans. Brigit Patmore, London, 1930. 56. To HD... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - Education - 1918 - 270 pages
...circumstances will at all commonly permit a consummation of that kind and degree. "Indeed ... we may say ... as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' " In all the above argument and exposition, touching the executive office and its administrative duties,... | |
 | Phil Genova - Art - 1998 - 340 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 as...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
 | James Prosek - Sports & Recreation - 2010 - 350 pages
...preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on Cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...Indeed my good Scholar, we may say of Angling, as Dr. Butler said of Strawberries; Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...stray. It is memorialized in The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, who quotes Dr. William Boteler: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." DG Cooley, however, in Rat and Get Slim (1945), warns, "One man's strawberries are another man's hives."... | |
 | James R. Babb - Sports & Recreation - 2002 - 226 pages
...business, the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as...streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. — IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler /() h my. Another collection of navel-gazing essays from a baby... | |
 | Carol Byrd-Bredbenner - Cooking (Fruit) - 2002 - 218 pages
...Vitamin C 87%DV. FRESH TASTES FROM THE GARDEN STATE 34 Of the strawberry, William Butler remarked, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Although fresh, lush strawberries don't need any help, they are divine on these moist coconut pillows.... | |
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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... 
