Izaak Walton and His FriendsChapman & Hall, 1903 - 263 pages |
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Page 25
... happy and pleasant as the life of a " well - governed angler ; " it invites to contemplation and quietness ; its lawfulness he justifies by appeal to the Scriptures and to the practice of it by apostles , the saints and primitive ...
... happy and pleasant as the life of a " well - governed angler ; " it invites to contemplation and quietness ; its lawfulness he justifies by appeal to the Scriptures and to the practice of it by apostles , the saints and primitive ...
Page 34
... the first chapter of The Complete Angler . The singer prays for a quiet and happy life , and to have what we read of in the Book of Job as the " hear- 1 W. S. Landor . ing ear , and the seeing eye , " for 34 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS.
... the first chapter of The Complete Angler . The singer prays for a quiet and happy life , and to have what we read of in the Book of Job as the " hear- 1 W. S. Landor . ing ear , and the seeing eye , " for 34 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS.
Page 44
... happy intermixture of graver strains with the precepts of angling , have rendered this book deservedly popular " ( Literary History , Vol . IV . , p . 323 ) . Charles Lamb , in a letter to Coleridge , wrote : " Among all your quaint ...
... happy intermixture of graver strains with the precepts of angling , have rendered this book deservedly popular " ( Literary History , Vol . IV . , p . 323 ) . Charles Lamb , in a letter to Coleridge , wrote : " Among all your quaint ...
Page 45
... happy thoughts , and of the herb called heart's - ease ! " ( " Merry England " in Sketches and Essays ) . Miss Mary Russell Mitford , in her Recollections of a Literary Life , says : " Certainly it was not amongst the least of the many ...
... happy thoughts , and of the herb called heart's - ease ! " ( " Merry England " in Sketches and Essays ) . Miss Mary Russell Mitford , in her Recollections of a Literary Life , says : " Certainly it was not amongst the least of the many ...
Page 90
... happy that he accounted the former part of his life to be lost ; and the beginning of it to be from his first entering into Sacred Orders , and serving his most merciful God at His altar . " Again , as to Walton's account of Donne's ...
... happy that he accounted the former part of his life to be lost ; and the beginning of it to be from his first entering into Sacred Orders , and serving his most merciful God at His altar . " Again , as to Walton's account of Donne's ...
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