 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibocus 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, hearing the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 524 pages
...I therefore strive to follow those, Whom he to follow him hath chose. NOTHING BETTER THAN ANGLING. 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - 1909 - 422 pages
...science because it is not truth, neither is it set in order. " No life," he says, " can be so happy, or so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed Angler,...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... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 296 pages
...watch him in the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, " we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silent silver streams which we see glide so quietly by us." During the ordinary business of the... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1913 - 314 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...wellgoverned 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... | |
 | 1914 - 722 pages
...vividly and with such good relish as could Izaak Walton? Cannot we all say "amen" to the following : "No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and...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... | |
 | 1914 - 696 pages
...vividly and with such good relish as could Izaak Walton? Cannot we all say "amen"' to the following : "No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and...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... | |
 | Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark - 1920 - 730 pages
...the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, 'we sit on the cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silent silver streams which we see glide so quietly by us.' During the ordinary business of the... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 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... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 pages
...praise 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... | |
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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,... 
