 No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing,...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Seite 151herausgegeben von - 1856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 Seiten
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preHarvie, MA" The presumption, therefore, is very strong, that both were written by the Christopher... | |
 | 1835 - 426 Seiten
...old Izaak Walton, the father of all honest anglers says and sings, — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 Seiten
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibaeus did under their broad Beech-tree. No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...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... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 Seiten
...attentions. PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS, IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. t " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyr . is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...Virgil's Tit y rus and his Melïbœiis did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest acholar, obert Chambers tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 Seiten
...door, and lose myself with it in the shades of the woodland. There I indulge in solitary musing ; and, "when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then I sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess myself in as much quietness as the silent... | |
 | J. Coad - 1832 - 334 Seiten
...PISCATOR. ANGLING EXCURSIONS IN IRELAND. CHAP. I. " No life, my honest scholar, no life is so happy nnJ so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler;...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 Seiten
...beech tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well governed angler : for when the lawyer is swallowed up with...contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the bifds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 Seiten
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melihreus did under their broad beech tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well governed angler : for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 254 Seiten
...my honest scholar, no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler ; for while the lawyer is swallowed up with business, 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... | |
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