 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pages
...— a man must be born to it ;" while the felicities of 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 * The first edition... | |
 | 1846 - 824 pages
...to believo with the venerable old Father of the angle, there is no life so happy and so pleasant ; " for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plot«, then sit we on cowslip banks," says this fine old fellow, "hear the birds sing, and possess... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 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...up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we set on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess onrselves in as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...pleasant as the life of a well-governed ugler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with botines*, nog, «id possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...cares uiuler this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibœus did under their broad beech tree. he other liked not, or what the other had bought before, so ал the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 386 pages
...grows toward supper- time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." 15 THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness aa these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK W ALTOS. IN that delicious... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 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... | |
 | George Philip Rigney Pulman - 1853 - 102 pages
...fustian coat. j * Th' zilver hook — ie Money. t When hired for the day. THE PLEASURES OF ANGLING. " No life, my honest scholar, — no life so happy and...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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1854 - 348 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibteus 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 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...angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business,—and the statesman is preventing, or contriving, plots,—then, we sit on cowslip-banks,... | |
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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,... 
