...if 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...

...delicious." — Thevenot. 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.' " Sultana Nourmahal, the Light of the Haram,* who had so often wandered among these flowers, and fed...

...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 : 't was a...

...of the following pretty passage in Isaac Walton : — " When I sat last on this primrose bank, flnd looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles...too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.' " < Nourmahal signifies Light of the Haram. She was afterwarjs callec Nouriehan, or the Light of the...

...versifiers have waxed eloquent on ' primrosebanks and meadows ;' has any excelled Walton's sentiment — ' I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the...too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays ' ? § As no one can profitably enter upon a discourse on fish and fishing without catching fire at...

...sat on this primrose bank and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of Florence, — that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays." Professor Wilson ("Christopher North") refers to the- sad looks which primroses wear, and speaks of...

...I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." I '11 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 '11...

...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...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'1l...

...quiet, innocent recreation than angling," I tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them,...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...

...angling.' I'll tell yon, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadow*. I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the...city of Florence, ' that they were too pleasant to bt? looked on but only on holidays.' As I theu eat on this very grass, 1 turned my present thoughts...