 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 str.
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries, "doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." Izatk Walton. is briefly recorded by Crawford,—" Robert, Lord Lyell, was a benefactor to the monks... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 312 str.
...waters, with no other companions than rod and reel, singing birds and summer zephyrs. " As Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...berry, but doubtless God never did ;' and so, if I may be judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than Angling." But it would... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 314 str.
...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;' and so, if I may judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." This victory was a surfeit for the morning. With other fish in full view, ready to give me a repetition... | |
 | George Christopher Davies - 1876 - 226 str.
...his broad shoulders from an overhanging bough, and sits there in triumph as he continues his walk. " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling," and surely he never made a better angler and man than he who now obeys the sound of the breakfast-bell.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 str.
...which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...I might be judge) God never did make a more calm, innocent recreation than angling." "The old course of the Lea affords many a charming picture. An old... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 str.
...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 '11 tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1878 - 316 str.
...in old Isaak Walton's happy words : " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of Strawberries—' Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." I doubt whether, with our present experience of good Strawberries, we should join in this high praise... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 str.
...virtue, ... be quiet, and gft a- ANGLING. —Ibid. Angling. — We may say of ANGLING as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Ibid. Annals. — If you have writ your ANNALS true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote,... | |
 | Edward Payson Roe - 1880 - 324 str.
...Angler." " Indeed, my good schollar," the serene Izaak writes, " we may say of angling as Dr. Poteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." If this was true of the wild Wood strawberry, how much more so of many of our aromatic rubies of to-day.... | |
 | Edward Payson Roe - 1880 - 324 str.
...got ; Such, growing abroad, among thorns in the wood, Well chosen and picked, prove excellent good." strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." If this was true of the wild Wood strawberry, how much more so of many of our aromatic rubies of to-day.... | |
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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. 
