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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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...Virgil's Tilyru.-* and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech-tree. Xo life, my honest "cliolar. no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed auirler ; for when tlte lawyer ia swallowed up with business, and thp statesman is preventing or contriving:...
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Outing and the Wheelman, Volume 39

1902 - 1028 pages
...bird — I'd like to know — Jim Crow? THE PASSING OF KEENOOSH-AW OGEEMAH By Marstyn Pollough-Pogue " No life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler." — Izank Walton. UNDER the water, in the dim, umbergreen deeps among the looming weeds, he was king,...
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Time, Volume 6

Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 758 pages
...deaths, he speaks of statemen's plots, plans, and troubles, and says in soundless words of triumph, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler," who sits on cowslip banks, hears the birds sing, and possesses himself in as much quietness as does...
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Time, Volume 6

Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 764 pages
...deaths, he speaks of statement plots, plans, and troubles, and says in soundless words of triumph, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler," who sits on cowslip banks, hears the birds sing, and possesses himself in as much quietness as does...
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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...together they eat their rural breakfast, and thus Piscator continues his praises of their occupation : " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good...
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Neighbors with Wings and Fins, and Some Others: For Young People

James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 pages
...love this charming sport, In this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these...
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Neighbors with Wings and Fins: And Some Others, for Young People

James Johonnot - 1888 - 244 pages
...love this charming sport. In this book, addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business^and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots — then we may sit on cowslip banks,...
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...cares under this Sycamore, as Virgils Titynis and his Melibceus did under their broad Beech tree : No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy, and so pleasant as the Anglers, unless it be the Beggers life in Summer ; for then only they take no care but are as happy...
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Where the Trout Hide

Kit Clarke - 1889 - 144 pages
...creatures that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler." The world and civilization have advanced since Walton toyed beside the Dove, and that saint of good...
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The Chautauquan: A Weekly Newsmagazine. [Official Publication of Chautauqua ...

1893 - 780 pages
...MDCCVIIIC. 193 is IZAAK WALTON— 1593-1683. BY PROF. WF STOCKLEY. Of tho University of New Brunswick. "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and...or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks and hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...
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