 Paley was ardently attached to this amusement; so much so, that when the Bishop of Durham inquired of him, when one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humour, " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when...  Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - Pàgina 1001875Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1829 - 442 pàgines
...his most important works would he finished, he replied, with great quaintness and simplicity :— " My lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over.' " ETON WAGGERY. A short time since those lovers of mischief, the Etonians, took away from a ladies'... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 400 pàgines
...one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humour, " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over," as if this were a business of his life. And I am rather reserved in introducing living characters,... | |
 | Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith - 1833 - 422 pàgines
...one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humor, " My lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over," as if this were a business of his life. And I am rather reserved in introducing living characters,... | |
 | William Shipley - 1838 - 310 pàgines
...one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good-humour, ' My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over,' as if this were the business of his life." Robert Burns, Mr. Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd), Professor... | |
 | 1839 - 798 pàgines
...his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good-humour, 'My laid, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over ;' as if this were a business of his life. And 1 nm rather reserved in introducing living characters,... | |
 | Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - 712 pàgines
...when one of his most important works would be finished, said, with great simplicity and good humour, " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over," as if this were a business of his life. This defence of angling, as it commences, so it concludes,... | |
 | O'Gorman, Henry Corbet - 1845 - 362 pàgines
...than that of Sir Humphrey Davy to the Bishop of Durham would be, in the last degree, unreasonable—" My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over." But the book, such as it is, is WRITTEN, and as it appears it must, or ought to have a preface ; and... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - 1852 - 486 pàgines
...behalf of the repairs of the Free Kirk chapels throughout the Presbytery of Strathaven. CHAPTER VI. " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it, when the fly-fishing season is over." — DK. PALET to the Bishop of Durham. ELL, Hugh, my boy, busy I see, as usual," exclaimed a military... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pàgines
...finished, he answered innocently, as if fly-fishing and not philosophy were the business of his life, ' My Lord, i shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over ! ' And we know that glorious old Christopher North has written a book of wonderful idylls upon the... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1870 - 334 pàgines
...one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good humour, " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over," as if this were ab*siness of his life. And I am rather reserved in introducing living characters, or... | |
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