 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...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 pages
...any 'other person. Hear what old Izaak Walton, the father of all honest anglers says and sings, — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...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 pages
...cares under this Sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibaeus did under their broad Beech-tree. No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 378 pages
...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...plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds H sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus 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 pages
...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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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,... 
