 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
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 490 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...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind do please, Whose sweet calm course I contemplate,... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...as it leaves the mind at full liberty to pursue a train of useful reflections : — Of recreations there is none So free, as fishing is alone ; All other....alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. ANGLER'S SONG. Pope does not forget to notice the pleasures of angling:— In genial spring, beneath... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fetter'd in food Cupid's scare : My angle breeds me no such rare. Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...: My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and stndy too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind do please. Whose sweet calm course... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 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 alone ; All other pastimes do no leas Than mind and body both possess : My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. I... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 518 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fettered in fond Cupid's snare: My Angle breeds me no such care. Of recreation there is none So free as Fishing is...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind do please, Whose sweet calm course I contemplate,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1826 - 560 pages
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 | 1833 - 388 pages
...conscience, and for whose ultimate reform, this article is written. SEN EX. A DATS FISHING IN THE PLENTY. " Of recreation there is none — So free as fishing...no less, Than mind and body both possess : My hand, rtlone, my work can do, So I can fUh and study too." — IZAAK WALTON. Most courteous of readers !... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fettered in fond Cupid's snare : My angle breeds me no such care. Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas ; Fresh rivers best my mind do please, Whose sweet calm course I contemplate,... | |
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1844 - 356 pages
...we were all instantly on the qui vive for the capture of the foe, and with the Poet exclaimed — " Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too." Study may perhaps suit the purling brook, whilst engaged in the " gentle craft" with fly and rod, but... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 pages
...loser ; but who falls in love, Is fettered in fond Cupid's snare : My Angle breeds me no such care. Of recreation there is none So free as Fishing is...alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. I care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind do please, Whose sweet calm course I contemplate,... | |
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