 | Robert Blakey - 1856 - 378 pages
...am iu love with thy ward already ! Iza. No life, believe me, no life so happy and pleasant as that of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is...the statesman. is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silver... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1856 - 366 pages
...scholar, and I will soon make thee in love with my art ! Art. (aside) I am in love with thy ward already ! swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silver... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 pages
...his book he makes Piscator hold the following language to his honest scholar, in defence of his noble art. "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 in business, and the statesman in preventing... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 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...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 394 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...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1860 - 432 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 pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ;q for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving... | |
 | William Barrows - 1869 - 292 pages
...Walton, in his Complete Angler, expresses quite clearly my own views on this interesting subject: — "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our. souls in as much quietness as... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 526 pages
...success and interest in a legitimate and healthy recreation, we might say with another, that ''there is 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... | |
 | Charles Shearer Keyser - 1872 - 186 pages
...they still sit quietly beside its borders, and they say to us, in their master's words, "No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler, for when the lawyer is swallowed up in business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;"... | |
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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,... 
