| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 394 str.
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Meliboeus did under their broad beech tree : no life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 402 str.
...when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams which we now see glide by us." Piscator then enlivens their conversation by relating... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 str.
...grows toward supper-time, and I have some symptoms of hunger upon me." THE VILLAGE OP EL PARDILLO. When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. Is that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
| 1868 - 1036 str.
...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, taught... | |
| William Barrows - 1869 - 292 str.
...expresses quite clearly my own views on this interesting subject: — "No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our. souls in as much quietness as... | |
| New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 526 str.
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 str.
...me." THE VILLAGE OF EL PARDILLO When the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman a preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip...in as much quietness as these silent silver streams we now see glide so quietly by us. IZAAK WALTON. IN that delicious season when the coy and capricious... | |
| Charles Shearer Keyser - 1872 - 186 str.
...they still sit quietly beside its borders, and they say to us, in their master's words, "No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler, for when the lawyer is swallowed up in business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;"... | |
| 1872 - 480 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
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