 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 350 str.
...sparkling trout streams near Winchester till we are ready to say with him, ' No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so ' pleasant as the life of...the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the states' man is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on ' cowslip banks, hear the birds sing,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 str.
...as Virgil's Tityrus and his Melibocus did under their broad beech-tree. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hearing the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 524 str.
...follow those, Whom he to follow him hath chose. NOTHING BETTER THAN ANGLING. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a...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... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1909 - 238 str.
...innocent recreation " of angling is genuine and enthusiastic. He says: — " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - 1909 - 422 str.
...science because it is not truth, neither is it set in order. " No life," he says, " can be so happy, or so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed Angler,...and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 296 str.
...watch him in the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, " we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silent silver streams which we see glide so quietly by us." During the ordinary business of the... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1913 - 314 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...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 the... | |
 | 1914 - 722 str.
...relish as could Izaak Walton? Cannot we all say "amen" to the following : "No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...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... | |
 | 1914 - 696 str.
...relish as could Izaak Walton? Cannot we all say "amen"' to the following : "No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a...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... | |
 | Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark - 1920 - 730 str.
...the water, with his bright blended colors and gentle ways, once more, with Old Izaak, 'we sit on the cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as the silent silver streams which we see glide so quietly by us.' During the ordinary business of the... | |
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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,... 
