The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
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... writing that Life . Sir Henry dying in 1639 , before he had made any progress in the work , Izaak Wal- ton engaged in it ... written with energy , elegance , and co- piousness of style . Yet it must be confessed , that all the wit and ...
... writing that Life . Sir Henry dying in 1639 , before he had made any progress in the work , Izaak Wal- ton engaged in it ... written with energy , elegance , and co- piousness of style . Yet it must be confessed , that all the wit and ...
Page xvi
... a clergyman , and had some preferment in the diocese of Peterborough , we learn from a let- ter written to him by Dr. John Towers , Bishop of Peterborough , his diocesan ; wherein his lordship thanks him xvi LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... a clergyman , and had some preferment in the diocese of Peterborough , we learn from a let- ter written to him by Dr. John Towers , Bishop of Peterborough , his diocesan ; wherein his lordship thanks him xvi LIFE AND WRITINGS.
Page xix
... written the Life of one friend . He now undertook to ex- hibit a testimony of respect to the memory of anoth- er . In 1651 , he was the editor of " Reliquiæ Wot- tonianæ , or a Collection of Lives , Letters , Poems , with Characters of ...
... written the Life of one friend . He now undertook to ex- hibit a testimony of respect to the memory of anoth- er . In 1651 , he was the editor of " Reliquiæ Wot- tonianæ , or a Collection of Lives , Letters , Poems , with Characters of ...
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... written with his own hand , was deposited in the ar- chives of the library of his college , and Wood la- ments that he was refused access to them . It is un- necessary to add , that the Life of Mr. Hales , by Mr. Des Maizeaux , was ...
... written with his own hand , was deposited in the ar- chives of the library of his college , and Wood la- ments that he was refused access to them . It is un- necessary to add , that the Life of Mr. Hales , by Mr. Des Maizeaux , was ...
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... 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 fifth and much improved edition was pub- lished in 1676 , with a second part , by ...
... 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 fifth and much improved edition was pub- lished in 1676 , with a second part , by ...
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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.