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... Verses of Walton at the end of Dr Donne's Life . + See Reliquia Wottoniana , octavo , 1685 , p . 360 . In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24. In the year 1714 , the very book , with the original manuscript letter ...
... Verses of Walton at the end of Dr Donne's Life . + See Reliquia Wottoniana , octavo , 1685 , p . 360 . In Peck's Desiderata Curiosa , vol . i . lib . vi . p . 24. In the year 1714 , the very book , with the original manuscript letter ...
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... verse , the latter taken , as it seems , from a tract , on that subject , written by old Sir Tristram , an ancient forester , cited in the Forest Laws of Manwood , chap . iv . in sundry places ; a book wherein is determined the Lygnage ...
... verse , the latter taken , as it seems , from a tract , on that subject , written by old Sir Tristram , an ancient forester , cited in the Forest Laws of Manwood , chap . iv . in sundry places ; a book wherein is determined the Lygnage ...
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... verse , the latter taken , as it seems , from a tract , on that subject , written by old Sir Tristram , an ancient forester , cited in the Forest Laws of Manwood , chap . iv . in sundry places ; a book wherein is determined the Lygnage ...
... verse , the latter taken , as it seems , from a tract , on that subject , written by old Sir Tristram , an ancient forester , cited in the Forest Laws of Manwood , chap . iv . in sundry places ; a book wherein is determined the Lygnage ...
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... Verses by several writers of that day ; ‡ and had in the title - page , though Walton thought proper to omit it in the future editions , this apposite motto : " Simon Peter said , I go a fishing ; and they said , We also will go with ...
... Verses by several writers of that day ; ‡ and had in the title - page , though Walton thought proper to omit it in the future editions , this apposite motto : " Simon Peter said , I go a fishing ; and they said , We also will go with ...
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... verses , with that sober pleasantry , that unlicentious hilarity , that Piscator does ; and this , too , at a time when the whole kingdom was in arms ; and confusion and desolation were carried to an extreme sufficient to have excited ...
... verses , with that sober pleasantry , that unlicentious hilarity , that Piscator does ; and this , too , at a time when the whole kingdom was in arms ; and confusion and desolation were carried to an extreme sufficient to have excited ...
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Page 81 - Slippers, lined choicely for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw, and ivy buds, With coral clasps, and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 80 - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Page 82 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 106 - The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Page 210 - ... when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of nature, and therefore trust in him.
Page 40 - But the nightingale,' another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music, out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Page 40 - Sir, there be many men that are by others taken to be serious and grave men, which we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend all their time first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy or discontented : for these poor-rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy.
Page 48 - ... he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Page 68 - I'll now lead you to an honest Alehouse where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall...
Page 29 - I do not undertake to say all that is known, or may be said of it, but I undertake to acquaint the Reader, with many things that are not usually known to every Angler...