 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 sider
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling—as Dr. Boteler 1 said, of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.'' and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of them catches. I'll tell you,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 sider
...as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide во quietly by us." Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries...berry, but doubtless GOD never did,' and so, (if I may judge,) GOD did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. How sad it is... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 sider
...quietness, as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed my honest scholar we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so I say, (if I may be judge,) God never did make amore calm, quiet, innocent, recreation than angling."... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 sider
...as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 sider
...hours," such as these, " even as a shadow that passeth away and returneth not." Of a truth he thinks " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." And remembering an old lover of the sport, Sir Henry Wotton, and the verses, which at seventy years... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 sider
...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."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | 1863 - 478 sider
...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."] I IN these flowery meads would be; These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | 1863 - 362 sider
...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."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sider
...1593-1683. Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 1. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. lUd. Part i. Ch. 5. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1867 - 490 sider
...streams, which 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...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... | |
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Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " 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... 
