 | Joseph Leech - 1850 - 284 sayfa
...cannot help giving it. " Indeed my good scholar," says Izaak, " we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' doubtless God could have made...might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, and innocent recreation than angling." Honest Izaak! it was a wicked wish of my Lord Byron, that "... | |
 | 1920 - 968 sayfa
...— " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Mgline, as Dr. Uoteler said of strawberries, 'DouLtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ' : and so, if I might !*• jiidfre, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'' That Williams... | |
 | George Philip Rigney Pulman - 1851 - 242 sayfa
...FLY-FISHING, &c. &c. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " My good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." — IZAAC WAXTON. GLORIOUS old Izaac ! What delightful thoughts — what poetical imaginings — the... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 sayfa
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler* said of strawberries, " doubtless God could have "...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, " than angling." I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | 1853 - 380 sayfa
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' " " When I would beget content and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 sayfa
...the great vulgar," is become a part of the English phraseology. — Hurd. THE STRAWBERRY. Dr. Butler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." A HABITUAL BORE. Lord Chesterton we have often met with, and suffered a good deal from his lordship... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1854 - 348 sayfa
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 sayfa
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling—as Dr. Boteler 1 said, of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.'' and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of them catches. I'll tell you,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 sayfa
...now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling — as Dr. Boteler' said, of -strawberries, "Doubtless God could have...make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than I'll tell you, scholar ! when I sat last on this primrosebank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 sayfa
...silver streams which we now see glide во quietly by us." Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless GOD could have...berry, but doubtless GOD never did,' and so, (if I may judge,) GOD did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. How sad it is... | |
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Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. 
