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Izaak Walton. LIBRARY OF THE OLD ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS . VOL . V. WALTON'S LIVES . AS CHAM " Idle time not idly spent . " BOSTON : CAMBRIDGE : BROWN , SHATTUCK , AND CO . M DCCC XXXII . Our of the olde fieldes , as men saithe ,. HILLIARD ...
Izaak Walton. LIBRARY OF THE OLD ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS . VOL . V. WALTON'S LIVES . AS CHAM " Idle time not idly spent . " BOSTON : CAMBRIDGE : BROWN , SHATTUCK , AND CO . M DCCC XXXII . Our of the olde fieldes , as men saithe ,. HILLIARD ...
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Izaak Walton. LIVES OF DONNE , WOTTON , HOOKER , HERBERT , AND SANDERSON . BY IZAAK WALTON . WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS . VOL . I. BOSTON : HILLIARD , GRAY , AND COMPANY . CAMBRIDGE : BROWN , SHATTUCK , AND CO . M ...
Izaak Walton. LIVES OF DONNE , WOTTON , HOOKER , HERBERT , AND SANDERSON . BY IZAAK WALTON . WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS . VOL . I. BOSTON : HILLIARD , GRAY , AND COMPANY . CAMBRIDGE : BROWN , SHATTUCK , AND CO . M ...
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Izaak Walton. 14462.8 B UNIVERSIly LIBRARY " THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these . The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men , Dropped from an angel's wing With moistened eye We ...
Izaak Walton. 14462.8 B UNIVERSIly LIBRARY " THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these . The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men , Dropped from an angel's wing With moistened eye We ...
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Izaak Walton. EDITOR'S PREFACE . No one , it is believed , will be disposed to dis- pute the claims of " Izaak Walton's Lives , " to a place in the Library of Old English Prose Writers . They are admitted at an early stage of the series ...
Izaak Walton. EDITOR'S PREFACE . No one , it is believed , will be disposed to dis- pute the claims of " Izaak Walton's Lives , " to a place in the Library of Old English Prose Writers . They are admitted at an early stage of the series ...
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Izaak Walton. CONTENTS . VOL . IL Page . Verses to Mr. Izaak Walton To the Reader 13 · The Introduction 15 THE LIFE OF MR . RICHARD HOOKER 19 Appendix 101 George Cranmer's Letter 111 Verses to Mr. Izaak Walton 129 The Introduction 135 ...
Izaak Walton. CONTENTS . VOL . IL Page . Verses to Mr. Izaak Walton To the Reader 13 · The Introduction 15 THE LIFE OF MR . RICHARD HOOKER 19 Appendix 101 George Cranmer's Letter 111 Verses to Mr. Izaak Walton 129 The Introduction 135 ...
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Page 73 - WILT thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was ray sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still though still I do deplore ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page xxxvii - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 73 - ... their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 73 - When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. " Wilt thou forgive that sin, which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door ? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. " I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page xxvii - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page lxxxviii - How calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read and meditate and write, By none offended, and offending none ! To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease ; And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease.
Page 50 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page lx - ... hungry ; he hereth the melodyous armony of fowles ; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and many other fowles, wyth theyr brodes ; whyche me semyth better than alle the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and fowlers can make. And if the angler take fysshe ; surely, thenne, is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.
Page 40 - I shall present you with an extract collected out of some few of his many letters : "And the reason why I did not send an answer to your last week's letter was because it then found me under too great a sadness; and at present 'tis thus with me; there is not one person but myself well of my family.