 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,...  Science Sketches - Стр. 26авторы: David Starr Jordan - 1887 - Страниц: 276Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Izaak Walton - 1867 - Страниц: 490
...the lawyer is swallowe'd up with business, and the statesman 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 streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - Страниц: 358
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling... | |
 | 1868 - Страниц: 1038
...variety of hue and tone, light and shade ; nor is it a river near which, in company with old Walton, to sit ' on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver silent streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.' OT Thus the ancient poetry,... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - Страниц: 526
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - Страниц: 554
...the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman a 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 streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. IN that delicious season... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - Страниц: 232
...fancy himself miles away in the country in company with Izaak, when, to use his own expressive words, " we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us." But Izaak thought so much of... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - Страниц: 246
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling... | |
 | Watts Phillips - 1874 - Страниц: 276
...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, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us." Peter Applethwaite, who was a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - Страниц: 868
...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, 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 - Страниц: 176
...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, and possess ourselves of as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed... | |
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