 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 sayfa
...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 angler; for, when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing and contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks,... | |
 | 1876 - 882 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 sayfa
...Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibceus did under their broad beech-tree. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sayfa
...Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibreus did under their broad beech-tree. 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... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 758 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1882 - 762 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1902 - 1028 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sayfa
...he always returns to the central theme, the praise of angling. 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... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 sayfa
...addressing one who is learning the art of angling, he says: 3. "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 may sit on cowslip... | |
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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,... 
