 | 1872 - 520 pages
...madrigal. Such a passage as this, for example, is continually met, and is certainly an inspiration — " 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...grows toward supper time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO. When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as ihese silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. TN that delicious season... | |
 | Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - 176 pages
...(Walton) may be supposed to have uttered that sentiment so dear to every brother of the gentle craft — ' no life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; tor when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 530 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... | |
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pages
...wore the last of the dishonoured mitre of Paisley. LORD LYELL'S GIFT. No life, my honest scholar—no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a wellgoverned...up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as... | |
 | 1876 - 800 pages
...the water, with his bright, blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Izaak Walton's Angler, "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... | |
 | 1876 - 340 pages
...that Lord Claude, the boy abbot, wore the last of the dishonoured mitre of Paisley. LORD LYELL'S GIFT. No life, my honest scholar — no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a \vellgoverned angler; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing... | |
 | 1876 - 882 pages
...RECEIVED. THE PLEASURES OF ANGLING, by George Dawson. (Sheldon & Co.) According to old Isaak Walton, " no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ;" and to read of its enjoyments, as one may in the charming volume before us, it does indeed seem... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 pages
...man may be supposed to have uttered that sentiment so dear to every brother of the gentle craft—"No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant...banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves of as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...cares under this sycamore, as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibreus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so...hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much , so if I might be jndge, ' God never did make a mor" calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'... | |
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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,... 
