CHOICE ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY. THE LIVES OF DR. JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY WOTTON, RICHARD HOOKER, BY IZAAK WALTON: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS, BY THOMAS ZOUCH, D. D., F. L. S., PREBENDARY OF DURHAM. These were honourable men in their generations.-Ecclus. xliv. 7. UNIVERSITY OF NEW EDITION, WILLUSTRATIVE NOT COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. LIBRARY NEW YORK: A. S. BARNES & CO., 51 JOHN-STREET. CINCINNATI:-H. W. DERBY. 1854. CONTENTS. LIFE OF IZAAK WALTON, BY THOMAS ZOUCH DEDICATION TO DR. MORLEY, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER APPENDIX TO THE LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF MR. GEORGE HERBERT DEDICATION TO THE LIFE OF DR. ROBERT SANDERSON LIFE OF DR. ROBERT SANT CRSON 3 Ja There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these: the feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men In Statesmen, Priest, and humble Citizen. Around meek WALTON's heavenly memory! WORDSWORTH. YTIQUVIMU WINMEZOLV ENGLISH PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT. MDCCCXLV IN offering this edition of Walton's Lives to the public it need only be observed, that it is founded upon the one which Mr. Major, with his usual taste in embellishing the Text of Walton, put forth some years back. The Notes which were then collected at the end of the work, are now brought to the foot of the page, with some few alterations and additions. It is hoped that this volume, while it may assume the character of a Library Book, is thus rendered, in itself, a complete pocket companion to the admirer of the exquisite simplicity of the pure old English Author and the incomparable men he commemorates. The collation of the text is thus referred to in the former edition; "Life of Dr. Donne, originally prefixed to the first volume "of his Sermons, 1640, Fol. Second Edition, alone, 1658, "12mo. Life of Sir Henry Wotton, attached to the Reliquiæ "Wattonianæ, 1651, 12mo., other editions, 1654, 1672, 1685. "Life of Richard Hooker, First Edition, 1665, small oc"tavo; Second ditto, attached to the Ecclesiastical Polity, "1666, Folio. Life of George Herbert, First Edition with "his Letters, 1670, 12mo.; the Memoir was afterwards at'tached to his Temple, Poems, &c. in the edition of 1679. |