Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is alone; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess; My hand alone my work can do So I can fish and study too. The book of the Axeby George Philip R. Pulman - 1854Full view - About this book
| Charles Lanman - East (U.S.) - 1845 - 288 pages
...have reason to know I am somewhat of an adept. How truly hath it been written by good old Walton ; — Of recreation, there is none So free as fishing is...pastimes do no less, Than mind and body both possess ; My hands alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. Never, more deeply than now, have I felt the... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fetter'd in fond Cupid's snare ; My angle breeds me no such care. " Of recreation, there is none So free as fishing is...pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess ; My hands alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. " I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fetter'd in fond Cupid's snare ; My angle breeds me no such care. o H" 2Uy%x+P< !Y hands alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. " I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers... | |
| Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...waited for him, and now we are glad and rejoice in his salvation.' Stnentton. DL To It C't FISHING. OP of the subject, the best commentary on the text is...Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles i I-IM fish and study too. I care not I to fish in seas — Fresh rivers best my mind do please; Whose... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1847 - 606 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fettered in fond Cupid's snare: My angle breeds me no such core. Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...body both possess : My hand alone my work can do. So lean fish and study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind do please ; Whose... | |
| William Carpenter (angler.) - 1848 - 172 pages
...Chantrey, and the Duke of Roxburgh. These examples may, at least, justify old Isaac's averment — " Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study, too." As a relaxation from severe or mind-taxing pursuits, angling offers a greater diversity, with a callfor... | |
| Charles Lanman - History - 1850 - 276 pages
...surmounting the remains of the nameless exile. ROCK FISHING. Of recreations, there is none So fine as fishing is alone; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess: My hands alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. ISAAK WALTOX. THE STRIPED BASSE, OR ROCK-FISH.... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 pages
...snare : My Angle breeds me no such care. Of recreation, there is none So free as Fishing is alone ; AH other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess : My hand alone my work can do, So I can iish end study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best nsy mind do please ; Whose sweet... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 364 pages
...without impugning the modesty of the writer. " Nihil tetigit non ornavit !" PASTIMES AND SPORTS. " Of recreation, there is none So free as fishing is...; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body doth possess. My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too." IT has been said that recreation,... | |
| F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...letters of noble, royal, and literary characters of the past and present ages. PASTIMES AND SPORTS. " Of recreation, there is none So free as fishing is alone ; All other pastimes do no lees Than mind and body doth possess, My hand alone my work can do, Bo I can fish and study too." IT... | |
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