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
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 páginas
...innocent recreation than Angling." I '11 tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as...they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holy-days : " as I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse : 'twas a Wish,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1825 - 536 páginas
...View of the City of Florence, from Fiesole ; referred to by Walton in bis Complete Angler, Chap v. " When I sat last on this primrose bank, and " looked...pleasant to be " looked on, but only on holidays." Florence was also the chief residence of Sir H. Wotton in his exile from England. Vide the ensuing... | |
| Arthur Grant - 1903 - 300 páginas
...for example — as Izaak Walton thought of the meadows through which his own river Lea meandered, ' that they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.' Our river is not a holiday river, but pleasant it is notwithstanding. It meets us every evening as... | |
| Elizabeth Godfrey - 1904 - 362 páginas
...quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ' I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last upon this prim' rose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought ' of...pleasant to be looked on, ' " but only on holidays." As I then sat on this very grass, ' I turned my thoughts into verse : 'twas a wish which I'll ' repeat... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 páginas
...These lines occur in the "Complete Angler " of IZAAK WALTON (b. 1593, d. 1683). Old Plscator says, " When I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.' As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my pleasant thoughts into verse." Bryan, mentioned in the... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - 1909 - 422 páginas
...on this primrose bank and looked down upon these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor of the City of Florence, that they were too pleasant to be looked upon, but only on holy-days." We must confess right here, that Izaak Walton was no naturalist. He was... | |
| Grant Showerman - 1910 - 400 páginas
...Catullus or a Horace. That little corner of earth smiled on him beyond all others. He never looked across the expanse of Mendota from Observatory Hill...Perquisites this was not far from being the greatest. What was the need of vast variety? If the soul were kept in health, it needed no more variety of scene... | |
| 1914 - 722 páginas
...innocent recreation, than Angling ! "I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these Meadows, I thought of them as...too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.' " The book is the gem of the bookmaker's art. The illustrations are well executed and the print perfect.... | |
| 1914 - 696 páginas
...recreation, than Angling ! "I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked <k>wn these Meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor...too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.' " Diseases of the Nervous System For the General Practitioner and Student, by Alfred Gordon, AM, MD... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 750 páginas
...tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought 6f them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence,...too pleasant to be loo'ked on but only on holidays." As I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse: 'twas a wish, which I1I... | |
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