| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 páginas
...the warm attachment he had for Wotton: — " a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, whose learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind. Peace and patience, and a calm content, did cohabit in the cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton." SIR... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 páginas
...example shall be that under-valuer of money, the late provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling ; of which he would say, " "fwas an employment for his idle time, which... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 páginas
...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 ;...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind." — (Complete Angler. P. 1. Ch. I.) In Sir Henry Wotton's verses, written by him as he sat fishing... | |
| 1832 - 336 páginas
...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 ;...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind." — (Compltte Angler. P. 1. Ch. I.) In Sir Henry Wotton's verses, written by him as he sat fishing... | |
| Esq. Gregory GREENDRAKE (pseud. [i.e. J. Coad? or Henry Brereton Cody?]), J. Coad - 1832 - 334 páginas
...with whom I have often fished nnd conversed,) a man whose foreign employments in the service of the nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind—this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 páginas
...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,)...learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company a Fuller, in his Worthies, (Lancashire, p. 115,) has thought it worth recording of this pious and learned... | |
| Thomas Christopher Hofland - 1839 - 492 páginas
...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 ;...this man was also a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the art of angling, of which he would say, ' 'Twas an employment for his idle time, which... | |
| 1839 - 736 páginas
...leaming) "shall be that undcrvaluer of money, the late provost of Eton college, sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed ;...sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it, was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of my art : of which he would say, ' 'Twae an... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1842 - 532 páginas
...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...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling; of which he would say, — " 'Twas an employment for his idle time,... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 páginas
..." My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, (a man with whom I have often fished and conversed),...and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed among the delights of mankind. This man, whose very approbation of angling were sufficient to convince... | |
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