 | Izaak Walton - 1875 - Страниц: 672
...is here offered to their consideration and censure. And I wish the Reader also to take notice, that in writing of it, I have made myself a recreation...have in several places mixed (not any scurrility, bui) some innocent, harmless mirth, of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - Страниц: 890
...wisdom the world is governed. — Oxenstiern (1583-1654). IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man,...then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. The Author's Preface. I shall stay him no longer than to wish . . . that if he be an honest angler,... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 362
...There's not a JOY the world can give like that it takes away. Ibid., There's not a joy. Judge. — If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent JUDGE. — WALTON, Angler. — The cold nentrality of an impartial JUDGE. — ED. BURKE. Judgment— О JUDGMENT... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - Страниц: 474
...nothing so amusing as human nature, but then you must have some one to luu;/h with." BY JOHN BROWN, MD If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. — IZAAK WALTON FIRST SERIES RAB AND HIS FRIENDS AND OTHER PAPERS BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - Страниц: 506
...• . • " • v HOR^E SUBSECIV^. ' If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.'' — ISAAK WALTON. ' A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlours, discovered a young... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Страниц: 942
...wisdom the worli is governed. - Oxenstiern (1583-1654). IZAAK WALTON. 1 593-1 G83. Of which, if them be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. The Complete Anylcr. Author'! Preface. Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1884 - Страниц: 110
...deserve not commendation, yet I may obtain pardon . . . and I wish the reader also to take notice that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of a recreation." I, an amateur angler, a humble disciple, Ttii PREFATORY NOTE. venture to think I may, without too great... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1888 - Страниц: 232
...am resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of...innocent, harmless mirth, of which, if thou be a severe, sour-cornplexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge ; for divines say, there... | |
 | 1890 - Страниц: 660
...wholesome humour : "The dish of meat we will have is too good for any but anglers or very honest men ; and if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge." If we were asked by the immortal Dr. Johnson to define at the present moment the term "Vagabond," it... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1890 - Страниц: 306
...charm in a line introductory to his angling idyl: "I wish the reader also to take .notice that in the writing of it I have made myself a recreation of a recreation." Johnson has said books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand are the most useful,... | |
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And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of a recreation ; and that it might prove so to him, and not read dull and tediously, I have in several places mixed, not any 'scurrility, but some innocent,... 
