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... demonstrated by the fruits of that pleasant labour which you enjoy , when you purpose to give rest to your mind , and divest yourself of your more serious business , and ( which is often ) dedicate a day or two to this recreation .
... demonstrated by the fruits of that pleasant labour which you enjoy , when you purpose to give rest to your mind , and divest yourself of your more serious business , and ( which is often ) dedicate a day or two to this recreation .
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Sir , I , for my part , shall almost answer your hopes ; for my purpose is to drink my morning's draught at the Thatched House in Hoddesden ; and I think not to rest till I come thither , where I have appointed a friend or two to meet ...
Sir , I , for my part , shall almost answer your hopes ; for my purpose is to drink my morning's draught at the Thatched House in Hoddesden ; and I think not to rest till I come thither , where I have appointed a friend or two to meet ...
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... the knowledge of the mathematics , music , and the rest of that precious knowledge , and those useful arts , which by God's appointment or allowance , and his noble industry , were thereby preserved from perishing in Noah's flood .
... the knowledge of the mathematics , music , and the rest of that precious knowledge , and those useful arts , which by God's appointment or allowance , and his noble industry , were thereby preserved from perishing in Noah's flood .
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Concerning which two opinions I shall forbear to add a third , by declaring my own ; and rest myself contented in telling you , my very worthy friend , that both these meet together , and do most properly belong to the most honest ...
Concerning which two opinions I shall forbear to add a third , by declaring my own ; and rest myself contented in telling you , my very worthy friend , that both these meet together , and do most properly belong to the most honest ...
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as namely , first St. Peter , St. Andrew , St. James , and St. John ; and , then , the rest in their order . And it is yet more observable , that when our blessed Saviour went up into the mount , when he left the rest of his disciples ...
as namely , first St. Peter , St. Andrew , St. James , and St. John ; and , then , the rest in their order . And it is yet more observable , that when our blessed Saviour went up into the mount , when he left the rest of his disciples ...
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Page 221 - 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. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore : But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore ; And having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.
Page 86 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...
Page 58 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Page v - The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also -will go with thee.
Page 409 - And when one of the company told him he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment, his answer was that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight ; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place — " For if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.
Page 60 - 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 61 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Page 38 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink. With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace ; And on the world and my Creator think : Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace ; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war, or wantonness.
Page 206 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 87 - And raise my low-pitched thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits, and the noise Of princes' courts, I would rejoice. Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook.
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| Title | The Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson Library of English classics |
| Author | Izaak Walton |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1901 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2007 |
| Length | 497 pages |
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