 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
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...A 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;... | |
 | Richard Mason - 1900 - 188 pages
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 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 270 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...Than mind and body both possess : My hand alone my worh can do. So ! can fish and study too. / care not, I, to fish in seas, Fresh rivers best my mind... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann - 1902 - 800 pages
...Flounder 530 Eel-back Flounder 530 Starry Flounder 531 Window Pane 532 Bat-fish 532 INTRODUCTION " Of Recreation there is none So free as Fishing is...alone my Work can do, So I can fish and study too." THE aim of this book is to furnish that which well-informed men and women, and those who desire to... | |
 | George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill - 1903 - 654 pages
...opportunity." This is the true Waltonian spirit, and the very same which inspired the angler's songs of old : Of Recreation there is none So free as Fishing is...alone my Work can do, So I can fish and study too. I love not Angling (rude) on SeasFresh Streams my Inclination please, Whose sweet calm Course to Thought... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...A 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,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 524 pages
...A 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. In civil bounds I fain would keep. And for my past offences weep. And when the timorous trout I wait... | |
 | Harry Anton Auer - 1906 - 268 pages
...bear and in losing him the savage had quenched his thirst for blood and slumbered. CHAPTER XIV, TROUT. "Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is...alone; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and hody both possess; My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too." Of all the pastimes... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1908 - 274 pages
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