The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
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... given a full and circumstan- tial history of the appearances that presented them- selves to Dion and to Brutus . And in modern times Dr. Doddridge , a most sedulous examiner of facts , and of all men the least liable to credulity and ...
... given a full and circumstan- tial history of the appearances that presented them- selves to Dion and to Brutus . And in modern times Dr. Doddridge , a most sedulous examiner of facts , and of all men the least liable to credulity and ...
Page xxxiii
... given , having been principally communicated by Mr. Thomas Bar- ker , who has written a very entertaining tract on the subject . To remedy this defect , and to give lessons how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream , a ...
... given , having been principally communicated by Mr. Thomas Bar- ker , who has written a very entertaining tract on the subject . To remedy this defect , and to give lessons how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream , a ...
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... given to a woman that governed him ( with whom he lived and died near the Abbey in Westminster ) ; and that neither he nor she took much care for next week ; and would be sure not to want wine ; of which he usually took too much before ...
... given to a woman that governed him ( with whom he lived and died near the Abbey in Westminster ) ; and that neither he nor she took much care for next week ; and would be sure not to want wine ; of which he usually took too much before ...
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... given to the world . The first of that number , as well on ac- count of its quaintness as antiquity , and because it is not a little characteristic of the age when it was written , deserves to be particularly distinguished . This tract ...
... given to the world . The first of that number , as well on ac- count of its quaintness as antiquity , and because it is not a little characteristic of the age when it was written , deserves to be particularly distinguished . This tract ...
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... given us to remark , that the circumstance of time , and the distracted state of the kingdom at the period when the book was written , reaching indeed to the publication of the third edi- tion thereof , are evidences of the author's ...
... given us to remark , that the circumstance of time , and the distracted state of the kingdom at the period when the book was written , reaching indeed to the publication of the third edi- tion thereof , are evidences of the author's ...
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acquaintance Albericus Gentilis Albertus Morton ambassador angling attend Bedel Bishop Bishop of Chichester blessed Bocton body called Charles Cotton cheerful Christian church of England commended Complete Angler Dean dear death desire died discourse divers divine Donne's Earl eminent employment father favor forbear friendship gave George Herbert give happy hath holy honor Hooker humble Izaak Walton JOHN DONNE Julius Cæsar justly king James language late learning leave letter live London Lord majesty memory ment merits mind Nicholas Nicholas Wotton Oxford person piety Pope praise prayers preach present professed reader religion Richard Hooker Rome sacred sent sermons Sir Henry Savile Sir Henry Wotton Sir Robert sorrow soul spirit thenne Thomas Thomas Ken thou thought tion unto Venice verse virtue Whilst wife worthy writ write written youth
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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.