The life of Isaac Walton; incuding notices of his contemporaries. [on large paper, cm.20].1826 |
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... Master of Eton College , of which he was so severe a governor , that the scholars hated him for his austerity . To men of wit he gave no encouragement . When a young scholar was named to him as a good wit , he would reject him , and ...
... Master of Eton College , of which he was so severe a governor , that the scholars hated him for his austerity . To men of wit he gave no encouragement . When a young scholar was named to him as a good wit , he would reject him , and ...
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... master , and patron of ang- ling " and we learn from good authority , that Herbert loved angling ; " a circumstance that is rather to be believed , because he had a spirit suit- able to anglers , and to those primitive Christians who ...
... master , and patron of ang- ling " and we learn from good authority , that Herbert loved angling ; " a circumstance that is rather to be believed , because he had a spirit suit- able to anglers , and to those primitive Christians who ...
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... Master of the line ! Whether down some valley's side You walk to watch the smooth stream glide , Or on the flow'ry margin stand To cheat the fish with cunning hand ; 6 “ And let no man imagine , that a work on such a subject must ...
... Master of the line ! Whether down some valley's side You walk to watch the smooth stream glide , Or on the flow'ry margin stand To cheat the fish with cunning hand ; 6 “ And let no man imagine , that a work on such a subject must ...
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... master lives again And yet your pen aspires above The maxims of the art you love ; Though virtues , faintly taught by rule , Are better learn'd in angling's school , Where Temperance , that drinks the rill , And Patience , sovereign ...
... master lives again And yet your pen aspires above The maxims of the art you love ; Though virtues , faintly taught by rule , Are better learn'd in angling's school , Where Temperance , that drinks the rill , And Patience , sovereign ...
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... master of any such thing , any eloquence to set it off , or recommend it ; so that if you , in your better judgment , or kindness rather , can allow it passable , for a thing of this nature , you will then do me honour , if the Cypher ...
... master of any such thing , any eloquence to set it off , or recommend it ; so that if you , in your better judgment , or kindness rather , can allow it passable , for a thing of this nature , you will then do me honour , if the Cypher ...
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Page 33 - 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 62 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 70 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page 77 - He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Page 73 - A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does, because we are sure that some time or other we shall ourselves be in the same melancholy circumstances. The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in, but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble.
Page 67 - that he had great reason to give God thanks for his travels ; since, if it were possible, he returned rather more confirmed of the purity of the Protestant religion than he was before.
Page 3 - ... he dwelt on the north side of Fleet-street, in a house two doors west of the end of Chancery-lane, and abutting on a messuage known by the sign of the Harrow.
Page 32 - And let no man imagine, that a work on such a subject must necessarily be unentertaining, or trifling, or even uninstructive ; for the contrary will most evidently appear, from a perusal of this excellent piece, which — whether we consider the elegant simplicity of the style, the ease and unaffected humour of the dialogue, the lovely scenes which it delineates, the enchanting pastoral poetry which it contains, or the fine morality it so sweetly inculcates— has hardly its fellow in any...
Page 48 - So beauteous did the scenery of this delightful spot appear to him, that, to use his own words, " the pleasantness of the river, mountains, and meadows about it, cannot be described, unless Sir Philip Sidney, or Mr. Cotton's father were again alive to do it.
Page 10 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind...