Walton's Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Dr. Robert SandersonWm. Veazie, 1865 - 386 pages |
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... BISHOP OF WINCHESTER EPISTLE TO THE READER LIFE OF DR . DONNE · · INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF DR . DONNE 43 45 49 53 ELEGY BY IZAAK WALTON EPITAPH BY DR . CORBET ELEGY BY DR . KING LIFE OF SIR HENRY WOTTON ELEGY BY COWLEY INTRODUCTION ...
... BISHOP OF WINCHESTER EPISTLE TO THE READER LIFE OF DR . DONNE · · INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF DR . DONNE 43 45 49 53 ELEGY BY IZAAK WALTON EPITAPH BY DR . CORBET ELEGY BY DR . KING LIFE OF SIR HENRY WOTTON ELEGY BY COWLEY INTRODUCTION ...
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... generations , having been known by the name of the Kens of Ken - Place , in Somersetshire . She was the sister of Thomas Ken , afterward the deprived Bishop of Bath and Wells . If there be a name 29 LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... generations , having been known by the name of the Kens of Ken - Place , in Somersetshire . She was the sister of Thomas Ken , afterward the deprived Bishop of Bath and Wells . If there be a name 29 LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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... Bishop of Peterborough , his dio . cesan ; wherein his lordship thanks him for the first volume of his father's sermons , telling him , that his parishioners may pardon his silence to them for a while , since by it he hath preached to ...
... Bishop of Peterborough , his dio . cesan ; wherein his lordship thanks him for the first volume of his father's sermons , telling him , that his parishioners may pardon his silence to them for a while , since by it he hath preached to ...
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... Bishop of London ; and with the express purpose of correcting some errors committed by Dr. Gauden , from mere inadvertency and haste , in his account of " that immortal man , " as he has been emphatically styled , " who spoke no lan ...
... Bishop of London ; and with the express purpose of correcting some errors committed by Dr. Gauden , from mere inadvertency and haste , in his account of " that immortal man , " as he has been emphatically styled , " who spoke no lan ...
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... Bishop of Lincoln ; because I know your ability to know , and integrity to write truth . And sure I am , that the life and actions of that pious and learned prel- ate will afford you matter enough for his commendation , and the ...
... Bishop of Lincoln ; because I know your ability to know , and integrity to write truth . And sure I am , that the life and actions of that pious and learned prel- ate will afford you matter enough for his commendation , and the ...
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Page 73 - 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 25 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 100 - The Lord was ready to save me : therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
Page 74 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 149 - An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 18 - 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 303 - Farrer, and tell him, he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose service I have now found perfect freedom. Desire him to read it ; and then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul : let it be made public ; if not let him burn it...
Page 193 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 29 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page 58 - ... love is a flattering mischief that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father ; a passion that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.