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Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &c, Volume 2

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 [Commentator]· 2 chapters· 84,801 words

This issue of "Walton's Lives" is based upon John Major's edition of 1825, which was printed from a copy of the edition of 1675, "corrected by Walton's own pen," Major's "illustrative notes" have been preserved, with some modifications by later hands. Mr. AUSTIN DOBSON has rea...

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This issue of "Walton's Lives" is based upon John Major's edition of 1825, which was printed from a copy of the edition of 1675, "corrected by Walton's own pen," Major's "illust...

2. i. 24, which he would not have wanted because they occasioned his

rejoicing in them. And he, having well considered this, and observed the secret unutterable joys that children beget in parents, and the mutual pleasures and contented trouble o...