...world may rate, You see 'tis best to hesitate" STANZES IRREGULIERS, TO AIR IZAAK WALTON, BY C. COTTON. Farewell, thou busy world, and may We never meet again...theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good God 1 how sweet are all things here, How beautiful the fields appear, How cleanly do we feed and...

...affectionate Father and Friend, THE EETIEEMENT. ,f IRREGULAR STANZAS, ADDRESSED TO MR. IZAAK WALTON. FAREWELL, thou busy world ! and may We never meet...eat, and sleep, and pray, And do more 'good in one snort day, Than he, who his whole age out wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but...

...Westminster, in 1687. Cotton was witty and accomplished ; he was an intimate friend of Izaak Walton.] FAREWELL, thou busy world, and may We never meet again...theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear ! How cleanly do we feed...

...Westminster. in 1687. Cotton was witty and accomplished ; he was an intimate friend of Izaak Walton.] FAREWELL, thou busy world, and may We never meet again...theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear! How cleanly do we feed...

...Westminster, in 1687. Cotton was witty and accomplished ; he was an intimate friend of I/aak Walton.] FAREWELL, thou busy world, and may We never meet again...theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear! How cleanly do we feed...

...complete any broken volumes they may have, and thus greatly enhance their value. THE RETIREMENT. .L, thou busy world, and may We never meet again ; Here...theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear ! How cleanly do we feed...

...works could supply. THE RETIREMENT. IRREGULAR STANZAS, ADDRESSED TO MR. IZAAK WALTON. L T7AREWELL, thou busy world ! and may -*- We never meet again...outwears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where naught but vanity and vice do reign. Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields...

...calls him " hearty, cheerful, Mr. Cotton." He was an intimate friend of Iznak Walton.] "PARFAVELL, thou busy world, and may •*• We never meet again...more good in one short day Than he who his whole age out wears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where nought but vanity and vice appears. Good (iod !...

...mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end. WILLIAM CL-LLEN ВИГАЯТ. RETIREMENT. FAIIEWELL, than in this march of mind — In the steamship,...in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the pas Then he who his whole age outwears Upon the most conspicuous theatres, Where naught but vanity and...

...The one for a horse, and the other an ass. The Retirement. Stanzas Irregulicrs, to Mr Iza»k Walton. wise instruction. Go thou and do likewise, and thy c do reign. Good God, how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear! How cleanly do...