 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...  The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... - Pagina 106door Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 383 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagina’s
...Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Part i. Ch. 4. No man can lose what he never had. Part i. Ch. 5. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Part i. Ch. 5. 1 William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his Worthies (Suffolk) the " ^Esculapius of... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1875 - 530 pagina’s
...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. And who that is enamored of piscatorial pleasures, and occasionally seeks the shady banks of some sequestered... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 pagina’s
...briefly. It was in this speech that the poet Pierpont applied to Kansas the saying, of Dr. Boteler of strawberries: " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." MAY 27. — Gov. Walker reaches Lecompton, via Lawrence, and issues his Inaugural Address. It was a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 612 pagina’s
...strawberries, " Doubtless God could havo made a better berry, but God never did ; " and so (if I might bo judge), " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." ' * The same devotional spirit, which is here so conspicuous, comes out in Walton's ' Lives,' which,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 646 pagina’s
...278. 2 A glide 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 a better berry, but God never did ; " and so (if I might be judge), " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation... | |
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 340 pagina’s
...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." lza*k Walton. is briefly recorded by Crawford,—" Robert, Lord Lyell, was a benefactor to the monks... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 312 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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.... | |
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