Izaak Walton: Cytaty po angielsku
“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so”
Part I, ch. 1.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
Kontekst: Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
Part I, ch. 2.
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“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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“An excellent angler, and now with God.”
Part I, ch. 4.
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“I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle.”
Part I, ch. 1.
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“As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”
Part I, ch. 1.
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“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”
Epistle to the Reader.
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“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
Part I, ch. 4.
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”
Part I, ch. 8.
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“God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579.
“No man can lose what he never had.”
Part I, ch. 5.
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Part I, ch. 5. Referring to William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of "The Angler," 1655. Roger Williams, in his "Key into the Language of America," 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry".
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
Life of Dr. Donne (1640).
“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.”
Part I, ch. 5.
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Part I, ch. 1. Compare: "Virtue is her own reward", John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, act iii, scene 1; "Virtue is to herself the best reward", Henry More, Cupid's Conflict; "Virtue is its own reward", Matthew Prior, Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2; John Gay, Epistle to Methuen; Home, Douglas, act iii, scene 1. "Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness", Diogenes Laertius, Plato, xlii; "Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces" ("Virtue herself is her own fairest reward"), Silius Italicus (25?–99): Punica, lib. xiii. line 663.
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