| Izaak Walton - 1867 - 490 стор.
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have...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... | |
| Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 стор.
...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' " We shall reverse the ordinary method of writers upon Angling, and teach our readers, first, WHAT... | |
| Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1868 - 468 стор.
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
| 1868 - 468 стор.
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 стор.
...are to be •**• born sO. The Complete Angler. Part \.Ch.i. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Iud. Part i. Ch. i. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth,... | |
| William Barrows - 1869 - 292 стор.
...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...I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, qniet, innocent recreation than Angling." "Let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our... | |
| Charles Hindley - 1869 - 214 стор.
...are somewhat like poets — men are to be born so. And I believe with old Izaak, who has said, ' ' God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." May every sport prove as innocent as that of the field. May our hounds, horses, and hearts never fail... | |
| 708 стор.
...ever. (tt be continued). " THE COMPLETE ANGLER." XNGRAVKD BY J. SCOTT, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, RA I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadow*, 1 thought of them ns Charles (he Hinperor did of the cily of Florence: "Thai they were loo... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1870 - 708 стор.
...of the District Court of tile District of MassachusctU. Btill held, with quaint Izaak Walton, that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." And the hours of his relief from heavy labor were often spent with the brooks that run among the mountains,... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 стор.
...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] f" IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
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