 I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, "that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.  Educational Review - Página 14editado por - 1909Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | University of Michigan - 1882 - 198 páginas
...may be that like Walton, as he sat upon a bank, and his eyes fell on the blooming meadows, he thought that " they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." To his sensitive spirit, which was now and then dashed with melancholy, there was infinite solace in... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
...I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. " I 'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays. As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse. 'T was a wish which I 'll... | |
 | 1884 - 590 páginas
...may be that like Walton, as he sat upon a bank and his eyes fell on the blooming meadows, he thought "they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." To his sensitive spirit, which was now and then dashed with melancholy, there was infinite solace in... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 páginas
...These lines occur in the " Complete Angler " of IZAAK WALTON (b. 1593, d. 1683). Old Piscator says, " When I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.' At I then sat on this very grass, I turned my pleasant thoughts into verse." Bryan, mentioned in the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 838 páginas
...delicious." — Tftevenot. This reminds one of the following pretty passage in Isaac Walton : — " When I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked...too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.' " 2 Nourmahal signifies Light of the Haram. She was afterwards called Nourjehan, or the Light of the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 874 páginas
...delicious." — Thevenot. This reminds one of the following pretty passage in Isaac Walton : — " When I Ml last on this primrose bank, and looked down these...city of Florence, ' that they were too pleasant to De looked on, but only on holidays.'" 2 Nourmnhal signifies Light of the Haram. She was afterwards... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1896 - 386 páginas
...Izaak's practical advice is not of much worth ; we read him rather for sentences like this : ' I 'll tell you, scholar : when I sat last on this primrose...Florence, " that they were too pleasant to be looked upon, but only on holy-days."' He did not say, like Fox, when Burke spoke of ' a seat under a tree,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 674 páginas
...I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse: 'twas a wish, which I'll... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle - 1897 - 642 páginas
...I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse: 'twas a wish, which I'll... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 páginas
...quiet, innocent recreation than angling. I'll tell you, scholar ; when I sat last on this primrosebank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as...they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holydays.' As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse : 'twas a Wish,... | |
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