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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,... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 438
1822
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The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation ...

Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melihceus 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...
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The Sportsman

1842 - 584 pages
...confirmatory of his full claim to originality of early formation. THE ANGLERS' CONVIVIAL. BY HALIFUS. " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of • well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the •talesman is...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama ...

Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841 - 500 pages
...Izaak Walton terms a recreation that invites to contemplation and quietness. " No life," he says, " so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed...is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslips' banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as those silver streams...
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The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 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 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...
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The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 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...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...
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Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13

1844 - 520 pages
...poetry — a man must be born to it ;" while the felicitiesof its practice he rates equally high : — " 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...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 732 pages
...Carrion Crow of England, as it was supposed to be, is original with him. 1845.] [April, WALTONIANA. No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...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 these...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 688 pages
...identical with the Carrion Crow of England, as it was supposed to be, is original with him. WALTONIANA. No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...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 these...
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The river Dove; with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of angling ...

John Lavicount Anderdon - 1845 - 254 pages
...says Mr. Walton ; and now let me read you these natural thoughts out of his book. — Here it is: ' 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...
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Rural sketches and poems, chiefly relating to Cleveland

John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pages
...exorcists, the Poet, from the sculptur'd halls of the imagination. RURAL SKETCHES. ANGLIANA, No. IV. " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as a well-governed angler ; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing...
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