 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 276 pages
...thought, and wistfully too, of the passage in your favourite Walton, which we are all so fond of—' I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care.' I almost wished myself one of these lilies." "These are all delightful indications," said the Marchioness,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...thought, and wistfully too, of the passage in your favourite Walton, which we are all so fond of:—'I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care.' I almost wished myself one of these lilies." "These are all delightful indications," said the marchioness,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 270 pages
...be thy name for ever ! HOGG WHEN I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power and the wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream. and then contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...skimming transiently about its glassy surface. " When I would beget content," says Izaak Walton, " and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and...lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the... | |
 | 702 pages
...fished with me, but with me walked '• the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplated the lilies that take no care, and those very many...knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature." Then his brother, Tom B , who was all skill, urbanity, and goodness — my Urbanes. Then came that... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 214 pages
...an enigma which defies solution. " When I would beget content and increase confidence in the power, wisdom, and providence, of ALMIGHTY GOD, I will walk...contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those many other living creatures, that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...nourished his piety by his amusements ; and he has taught us by his example, when we would " beget content and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of Almighty God," to walk " the meadows by some gliding stream, and then contemplate the lilies that take no care, and... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1858 - 710 pages
...only fished with me, but with me walked "the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplated the lilies that take no care, and those very many...knows not how, by the goodness of the God of nature." Then his brother, Tom B , who was all skill, urbanity, and goodness — my Urbanes. Then came that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...skimming transiently about its glassy surface. "When I would beget content ," says Lzaak Walton , " and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I wilt walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1844 - 532 pages
...consider, how many dead bones Time had piled up at the gates of Death : So when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom,...no care, and those very many other various little living-creatures, that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God... | |
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I would beget content," says Izaak Walton, "and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little... 
