 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,...  Trout and Salmon Fishing in Wales - Page iiby George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1822 - 850 pages
...honest scholar — no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a wellgoverned 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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pages
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 pages
...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 sit en cowslips banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...the lawyer is swallowed tip with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then + so if I might be judge, * God never did make a mor - calm, quiet, innocent recreation tujm angling.1... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pages
...the lawyer is (wallowed up with business, and th.> statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and...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 Boosey - 1835 - 328 pages
...no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler, — there we sit in cowslips, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Isaac Walton. Isaac Walton being so well known,... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - 1835 - 328 pages
...no life so happy, so pleasant, as the life of a well governed angler, — there we sit in cowslips, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Isaac Walton. Isaac Walton being so well known,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...money to use. No life is 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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 pages
...quietness. " No life," he says, " 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 cowslips' banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as... | |
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