 | Alfred Fowler - 1924 - 40 pages
...difference, a difference in which modernity seems to take slight interest. Listen to his words : ' ' No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler : " — well-governed, mark you ! — " for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the... | |
 | 1902 - 778 pages
...— I'd like to know — Jim Crow? THE PASSING OF KEENOOSH-AW OGEEMAH By Marstyn Pollough-Pogue " Xo 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,... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...poetry — a man must be born to it ;" while the felicities of its practice he rates equally high: — " 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... | |
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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,... 
