 I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields ; for I could there sit quietly, and, looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams, others leaping at flies of several shapes and colours ; looking on the hills I could...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3051841Full view - About this book
 | Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields; for I could there sit quietly, and, looking in the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...them spotted with woods and groves ; looking down upon the meadows, I could see, here a boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and there a girl cropping... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields ; for I could there sit quietly, and, looking in the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...several shapes and colours. Looking on the hills, ')L could behold them spotted with woods and groves ; looking down upon the meadows, I could see, here... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...situations; nor cau we imagine that no one for I could there sit quietly ; and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...flies of several shapes and colours; looking on the lulls, I could behold them spotted with woods and groves; looking down the meadows, could see, here... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields ; for I could there sit quietly, and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...gathering Lilies and Ladysmocks, and there a girl cropping Culverkeyes and Cowslips, all to make Garlands suitable to this present month of May : these, and many... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields; for I could there sit quietly, and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...woods and groves : looking down the meadows could here see a boy gathering lilies, there a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips, all to make garlands... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...the May-day garlands of the children of our peasantry, which Walton thus notices in his Angler: — " See here a boy gathering Lilies and Lady-Smocks, and...cropping Culverkeys and Cowslips, all to make garlands." This plant, which is a species of Cress, has been named Cardamine, from its having the taste of Cardamom.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1836 - 358 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields: fer I could there sit quietly ; and, looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...leaping at flies of several shapes and colours ; looking en the hills, I could behold them spotted with woods and groves ; looking down the meadows, could see,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...sit, as an old writer says, " Under a willowtree by the water-side quietly, and, looking on the river, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams...others leaping at flies of several shapes and colours ! Or, looking on the hills, you can behold them spotted with woods and groves ; or, looking down the... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 pages
...-failing attendant of conflicting interests. — could there sit quietly, and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...woods and groves ; looking down the meadows could here see a boy gathering lilies^there a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips, all to make garlands... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 536 pages
...pretended no title to them, took in his fields : for I could there sit quietly, and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams,...hills, I could behold them spotted with woods and K 3 groves ; looking down the meadows, could see, here a boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and... | |
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