 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...statesman 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...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr Botelcr said of strawberries ; ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...language. venting or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-hanks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver...us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, aj Dr.Botelersaid of strawberries,' Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but, doubtless,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...Statesman 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...Doubtless "God could have made a better berry, but doubt" less God never did : " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 254 pages
...is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness, as these silent silver...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 280 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Botelar said of strawberries, — * Doubtless God could have...but doubtless God never did ; ' and so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling,"— IZAAC WALTON.... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...statesman 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 streams which we now see glide so smoothly by us. Indeed we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 594 pages
...Statesman 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...doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge. PUBLIC LIBRARY THE NEW YORK ASTON. LENOX , And ante SONG. Liter Iltrmit /**ii•„ in pen,.Mvr plane... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...Statesman 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...doubtless God never did : " and so, if I might be judge. ^ A i «< 1 .1 m '• SONG. Compo»«l byX. L axu*arv,. / ->' ii.ii,iit ]•'•',. in fm .-l\: f»&lff... | |
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... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in 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 said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have... 
