 | Charles Shearer Keyser - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...or contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;" and it is truly said of angling, what Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if we maybe judges, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling, nor, it may... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...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 quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...expressive words, " 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 quietly by us." But Izaak thought so much of going fishing, that at times he forgot the pain, or rather torture to... | |
 | 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...contriving plots, then we sit on cow-slip banks, 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." The authority of Isaac Walton, upon all matters pertaining to the science of angling, no one will question.... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...strawberries. The strawberry is, for a child, the king of fruits. I)r Boteler once quaintly said of it, that " doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," — meaning thereby that the strawberry is, as a fruit, as near perfection as anything in this world... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...Fuller, one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Win. Butler, a celebrated but eccentric physician, born at Ipswich about 1535.... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written •* Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bnt doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Wm. Butler, a celebrated but ewentric phybician,... | |
 | Watts Phillips - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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 quietly by us." Peter Applethwaite, who was a good listener as well as talker — the former qualification being a... | |
 | Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves of as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed my good scholar, we may say of anglers, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries —... | |
 | 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 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...Thymallus. j ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. vi. § Ibid. Part I. cap. v. Vol. 139.— No. 278. 2 A glide glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we...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... | |
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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... 
