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... 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 , and chose only three to bear him company at his Transfiguration , that those three ...
... 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 , and chose only three to bear him company at his Transfiguration , that those three ...
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... for Angling was , after tedious study , ' a rest to his mind , a cheerer of his spirits , a diverter of sadness , a calmer of unquiet thoughts , a moderator of passions , a procurer of contentedness ; and that it 36 Chap . IZAAK WALTON.
... for Angling was , after tedious study , ' a rest to his mind , a cheerer of his spirits , a diverter of sadness , a calmer of unquiet thoughts , a moderator of passions , a procurer of contentedness ; and that it 36 Chap . IZAAK WALTON.
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... rest of my promised discourse , till some other opportunity , and a like time of leisure . 6 VENATOR . Sir , you have angled me on with much pleasure to the Thatched House ; and I now find your words true , that good company makes the ...
... rest of my promised discourse , till some other opportunity , and a like time of leisure . 6 VENATOR . Sir , you have angled me on with much pleasure to the Thatched House ; and I now find your words true , that good company makes the ...
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... rest since we came ; sure she will hardly escape all these dogs and men . I am to have the skin if we kill her . VENATOR . Why , Sir , what is the skin worth ? HUNTSMAN . It is worth ten shillings to make gloves ; the gloves of an Otter ...
... rest since we came ; sure she will hardly escape all these dogs and men . I am to have the skin if we kill her . VENATOR . Why , Sir , what is the skin worth ? HUNTSMAN . It is worth ten shillings to make gloves ; the gloves of an Otter ...
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... rest . And now let's go to an honest ale - house , where we may have a cup of good barley wine , and sing ' Old Rose , ' and all of us rejoice together . VENATOR . Come , my friend Piscator , let me invite you along with us . I'll bear ...
... rest . And now let's go to an honest ale - house , where we may have a cup of good barley wine , and sing ' Old Rose , ' and all of us rejoice together . VENATOR . Come , my friend Piscator , let me invite you along with us . I'll bear ...
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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.