 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 372 pàgines
...shows itself among the bridal gifts, many of us exclaim for the hundredth time with Dr. Boteler, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Nature, who is God's handmaid, does not attempt a rival berry. But by and by a little woolly knob,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 342 pàgines
...shows itself among the bridal gifts, many of us exclaim for the hundredth time with Dr. Boteler, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Nature, who is God's handmaid, does not attempt a rival berry. But by and by a little woolly knob,... | |
 | W.H.H. MURRAY - 1888 - 422 pàgines
...said, — " Dynamite ! Gad ! dynamite is n't so bad, after all ! " CHAPTER IV. THE BIG NEPIGON TROUT. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries:...berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ISAAK WALTON. CIVILIZATION... | |
 | William Henry Harrison Murray - 1888 - 352 pàgines
...said, — " Dynamite ! Gad! dynamite is n't so bad, after all!" • CHAPTER IV. THE BIG NEPIGON TROUT. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries:...but doubtless God never did.'' And so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ISAAK WALTON. CIVILIZATION... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 pàgines
...1813. I87 At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 124 pàgines
...Waterloo, 1815. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pàgines
...not ignore — the cultivated strawberry, of which Dr. Boteler (as quoted by Izaak Walton) said, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' 685. thou best anana. The pine-apple, most delicious of all fruits. It is indigenous to tropical America.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 452 pàgines
...Professor Gray. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 454 pàgines
...Professor Gray. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1892 - 300 pàgines
...preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, 1 These verses were written at or near the time when the Liturgy was abolished by an ordinance of Parliament;... | |
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... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have... 
