 | 1810 - 618 pagine
...Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed; a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wii and cheerfulness made bis company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind. This man, whose... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pagine
...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 ;...esteemed one of the delights of mankind."— (•Complete An?!,r, P I. Ck. I.) In Sir Henry Wo'ton's verses, written by him as he sate fishing on the bank of... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pagine
...Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pagine
...of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton,1 (a man with whom I have often fished and conversed,) a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind. This man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it,... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pagine
...ProvoSl of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it,... | |
 | 1823 - 772 pagine
...of Eton College, Sir Henry \Votton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pagine
...Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 160 pagine
...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 ;...cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of li;i- delights of mankind." — Complete Angler, edit. 1653. In Sir Henry Wotton's verses, written... | |
 | J. Coad - 1826 - 264 pagine
...with whom I have often fished and conversed) a man whose foreign employments in the service of the nation', and whose experience, learning, wit, and...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind — this man, was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practise? of the art of angling ; of which... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pagine
...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... | |
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My next and 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, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning,... 
