THE LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER:
The author of those learned
books of the laws of ecclesiastical
polity.
“Judicious Hooker, though the cost
be spent
On him, that hat...
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The English writer and biographer Izaak Walton (1593-1683) was the author of The Compleat Angler. His works show him to have been a kindly and religious man with a quiet sense of humor and rare common...
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George Saintsbury once observed that few authors have acquired fame through such different volumes as Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (1653) and The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. R...
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Izaak Walton has the distinction of having written not just one book that the world would not willingly let die, as John Milton aspired to do, but two. His treatise on fishing, The Compleat Angler, or...
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Biography EssayFew authors, as George Saintsbury has observed, have acquired fame through such different volumes as Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler and his collected Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir ...
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Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton