Category: Biographies
To write on Walton is, indeed, to hold a candle to the sun. The editor has been content to give a summary of the chief or rather the only known, events in Walton's long life, adding a notice of his character as displayed in his Biographies and in _The Compleat Angler_, with co...
To write on Walton is, indeed, to hold a candle to the sun. The editor has been content to give a summary of the chief or rather the only known, events in Walton's long life, ad...
2. Chapter 2Such are the scanty records, and scantier relics, of a very long life. Circumstances and inclination combined to make Walpole choose the _fallentis semita vitae_. Without ambiti...
3. Chapter 3Mr. Westwood has made a catalogue of books cited by Walton in his _Compleat Angler_. There is AElian (who makes the first known reference to fly-fishing); Aldrovandus, _De Pisci...