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
| Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 páginas
...lavender." 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,... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1925 - 502 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...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 : 't was a... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1925 - 502 páginas
...Angling." I '11 tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, 1 thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the...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 : 't was a... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 2005 - 212 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': as I then sat on this very grass, I turned my present thoughts into verse: 'twas a wish which I'll... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 562 páginas
...commendat rarior usiis. For example, his devotion to his old boat — prasidio bircmis scaphcc — was rewarded by the coursing of red blood thru his...city were agreed with him — when it was too late. What was the need of a vast variety? If the soul were kept in health, it needed no more variety of... | |
| 1873 - 422 páginas
....calm, quiet, innocent recreation than an^lin^.' When I sat last on this primrose bani^-and looked dowr* .these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." We cannot endorse all the good words Izaak Walton says about anglers, for we have known some uncommonly... | |
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