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Page 79 - 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 xliii - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 55 - Mourning 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 79 - When thou hast done, thou has 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.
Page 155 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page xxxiii - 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 84 - SINCE I am coming to that Holy room, Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore, I shall be made thy Music; as I come I tune the Instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page xlviii - Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page iv - O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.
Page 86 - The latter part of his life may be said to be a continued study; for as he usually preached once a week, if not oftener, so after his sermon he never gave his eyes rest, till he had chosen out a new text, and that night cast his sermon into a form, and his text into divisions...
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| Title | The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1 Issues 5-6 of Library of old English prose writers The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Alexander Young |
| Author | Izaak Walton |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2006 |
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