Izaak Walton and His FriendsChapman & Hall, limited, 1904 - 263 pages |
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... given in Chapter XIV . It is a curious fact that none of Walton's biographers , before Sir Harris Nicolas , 1 make any mention of his first marriage , and very few of them mention that by his second marriage he had issue two sons ...
... given in Chapter XIV . It is a curious fact that none of Walton's biographers , before Sir Harris Nicolas , 1 make any mention of his first marriage , and very few of them mention that by his second marriage he had issue two sons ...
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... given are poor . Walton could never , says Lowell , " have been taught even the rudiments of Latin , " and he gives some instances which he considers carry his point . It is enough for us , he says , " that he contrived to pick up ...
... given are poor . Walton could never , says Lowell , " have been taught even the rudiments of Latin , " and he gives some instances which he considers carry his point . It is enough for us , he says , " that he contrived to pick up ...
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... given to cleave unto him that is wise , and be willing to hear every godly dis- course , and when he saw a man of understanding -to get betimes unto him , and to let his foot wear the steps of his door ( Ecclesiasticus vi . 34 , 36 ) ...
... given to cleave unto him that is wise , and be willing to hear every godly dis- course , and when he saw a man of understanding -to get betimes unto him , and to let his foot wear the steps of his door ( Ecclesiasticus vi . 34 , 36 ) ...
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... given his mind to literature , and his free - time to the study and practice of angling . It is indeed difficult to know exactly where to place him . He was saturated with religion and with theology from his youth up , and the man who ...
... given his mind to literature , and his free - time to the study and practice of angling . It is indeed difficult to know exactly where to place him . He was saturated with religion and with theology from his youth up , and the man who ...
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... given by Walton in Part I. of The Complete Angler . There is no life , Walton says , so happy and pleasant as the life of a " well - governed angler ; " it invites to contemplation and quietness ; its lawfulness he justifies by appeal ...
... given by Walton in Part I. of The Complete Angler . There is no life , Walton says , so happy and pleasant as the life of a " well - governed angler ; " it invites to contemplation and quietness ; its lawfulness he justifies by appeal ...
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Page 226 - WILT Thou forgive that sin, where I begun, Which was my 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 234 - Not so, my heart: but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit, and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page 53 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 240 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 16 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 236 - I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And Thy book alone. Though I fail, I weep ; Though I halt in pace, Yet I creep To the throne of grace.
Page 232 - Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in any thing To do it as for Thee.
Page 228 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Page 35 - All these, and many more of His creation That made the heavens, the Angler oft doth see ; Taking therein no little delectation, To think how strange, how wonderful, they be ! Framing thereof an inward contemplation, To set his heart from other fancies free ; And whilst he looks on these with joyful eye, His mind is rapt above the starry sky.
Page 242 - Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...