 | James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 238 pages
...to the arguments of Piscator, and to the songs of the milkmaid ; and we hear Walton himself say: " 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... | |
 | Robert Bright Marston - 1894 - 304 pages
...reminds us, " Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibseus did under their broad beechtree," that Walton says,— " 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1896 - 386 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... | |
 | Henry Cadman - 1898 - 372 pages
...of pastures new, and with certain encumbrances. CHAPTER VI WALES — CLWYD, ELWY, LLUCJWY No lite, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler. — Pist'ATOR. IN the month of June 1874 I introduced myself to some of the rivers in the Principality.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 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...well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed upwith business, and the statesman is preventing^ or contr1v1ng plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks,... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 480 pages
...making a single quality fundamental to the description : A. MODE OF LIFE OF AN INDIVIDUAL. • MODEL No life, my honest scholar! no life so happy and so...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... | |
 | 1902 - 780 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." — Izaak Walton. UNDER the water, in the dim, umbergreen deeps among the looming weeds, he was king,... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 pages
...of the " calm, quiet, innocent recreation " of angling is genuine and enthusiastic. He says: — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 pages
...time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised in my birth. ' /.VU('.\TA.V 3obn JButrgan ' ' 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 350 pages
...Hertfordshire or along by the sparkling trout streams near Winchester till we are ready to say with him, ' No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the states' man is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on ' cowslip banks, hear the birds sing,... | |
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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,... 
