Izaak Walton
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Sep 28, 2026
David WalesNARRATOR
Part One: The Life of Dr. John Donne.
David WalesNARRATOR
Section One, taken from The Life by Isaac Walton.
David WalesNARRATOR
Master John Donne was born in London in the year fifteen seventy-three of good and virtuous parents.
David WalesNARRATOR
And though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales, where many of his name now live that deserve and have great reputation in that country.
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David WalesNARRATOR
But I shall see it reanimated.
David WalesNARRATOR
I. W.
David WalesNARRATOR
That is Isaac Walton.
David WalesNARRATOR
End of Part One, Section Two Part Two of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Together with Death's Duel.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
Each is of considerable interest in its own way.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
It is not to be denied that the chirring note of the nightjar is, to ordinary ears, the reverse of attractive, and the bird is not much more pleasing to the eye than to the ear, while the nightingale, on the contrary, produces such sweet sound as made Isaac Walton marvel what music God could provide for his saints in heaven when he gave such as this to sinners on earth.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
The suggestion was not wholly his own, since the father of angling borrowed it from a French writer, but he vastly improved on the original, and the passage will long live in the hearts of thousands who care not a jot for his instruction in respect of worms.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
At the same time, the nightjar, though the less attractive bird of the two, is fully as interesting as its comrade of the summer darkness, and there should be no difficulty in indicating the little they have in common, as well as much wherein they differ, in both habits and appearance.
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Algie PuggNARRATOR
out spake the cup i was once as thou and thou shalt be as i we would conclude with two more tetrastics which may fitly close our imperfect sketch omar khayyam we have said was ill at ease and unhappy his tone of revelry and enjoyment vainly masked the aching void within and where shall we find a more melancholy dirge than the following over a wasted life with all its knowledge and genius if coming had been in my power i would not have come if going had been in my power i would not go oh best of all lots if in this world of clay i had come not nor gone nor been at all and if the present was dark darker still seemed the future its darkness made even the present seem bright ere death raises his night attack on thy head bid them bring the rose-red wine no gold art thou poor brain-sick fool that once buried they should dig thee out again How different from the feeling of good old Isaac Walton when he stood by the open grave of his friend Dr. Dunn and thought of that body which once was a temple of the Holy Ghost and is now become a small quantity of Christian dust.
Algie PuggNARRATOR
But I shall see it reanimated.
Algie PuggNARRATOR
End of section Section 3 of a Second Rubaiyat Miscellany.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
Each is of considerable interest in its own way.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
It is not to be denied that the churring note of the nightjar is, to ordinary ears, the reverse of attractive, and the bird is not much more pleasing to the eye than to the ear, while the nightingale, on the contrary, produces such sweet sound as made Isaac Walton marvel what music God could provide for his saints in heaven when he gave such as this to sinners on earth.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
The suggestion was not wholly his own, since the father of angling borrowed it from a French writer, but he vastly improved on the original, and the passage will long live in the hearts of thousands who care not a jot for his instruction in respect of worms.
Pradeep Singh EhdiNARRATOR
At the same time, the nightjar, though the less attractive bird of the two, is fully as interesting as its comrade of the summer darkness, and there should be no difficulty in indicating the little they have in common, as well as much wherein they differ, in both habits and appearance.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But what is important to be remarked is that both were in the Church of England at the Reformation, and that presbyterianism was only extruded gradually.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
We have mentioned Hooker, and nothing better illustrates what has just been asserted than the following incident in Hooker's own career, which everyone has read, for it is related in Izaak Walton's life of Hooker, but of which probably the significance has been fully grasped by not one half of those who have read it.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
Hooker was through the influence of Archbishop Whitgift appointed in fifteen eighty-five Master of the Temple, but a great effort had just been made to obtain the place for a Mr. Walter Travers, well known in that day, though now it is Hooker's name which alone preserves his.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
This Travers was then afternoon lecturer at the Temple.
David WalesNARRATOR
Part One: The Life of Dr. John Donne.
David WalesNARRATOR
Section One, taken from The Life by Isaac Walton.
David WalesNARRATOR
Master John Donne was born in London in the year fifteen seventy-three of good and virtuous parents, and though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales, where many of his name now live that deserve and have great reputation in that country.
David WalesNARRATOR
By his mother, he was descended of the family of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England, as also from that worthy and laborious judge Rastell, who left posterity the vast statutes of the law of this nation most exactly abridged.
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David WalesNARRATOR
That body, which once was a temple of the Holy Ghost, and is now become a small quantity of Christian dust.
David WalesNARRATOR
But I shall see it reanimated.
David WalesNARRATOR
I.W. That is Isaac Walton.
David WalesNARRATOR
End of Part One, Section Two Part Two of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Together with Death's Duel.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But what is important to be remarked is that both were in the Church of England at the Reformation and that presbyterianism was only extruded gradually.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
We have mentioned Hooker and nothing better illustrates what has just been asserted than the following incident in Hooker's own career, which everyone has read, for it is related in Isaac Walton's life of Hooker, but of which probably the significance has been fully grasped by not one half of those who have read it.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
Hooker was through the influence of Archbishop Whitgift appointed in fifteen eighty-five Master of the Temple.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But a great effort had just been made to obtain the place for a Mr. Walter Travers, well known in that day, though now it is Hooker's name which alone preserves his.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
Hooker may have been right in thinking that there were in his time circumstances which made it essential that they should be settled in this sense, though the points in themselves were not essential.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But by the very fact of this settlement not having then been effected of the breach having gone on and widened, of the nonconformists not having been amicably incorporated with the establishment, but violently cast out from it, their circumstances are now altogether altered.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
Isaac Walton, a fervent churchman, complains that the principles of the nonconformists grew at last to such a height and were vented so daringly that, beside the loss of life and limbs, the church and state were both forced to use such other severities as will not admit of an excuse if it had not been to prevent confusion and the perilous consequences of it.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But those very severities have of themselves made union on an episcopalian footing impossible.
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Algy PugVOICE_ACTOR
spake the cup, I was once as thou, and thou shalt be as I. we would conclude with two more tetrastics which may fitly close our imperfect sketch omar khayyam we have said was ill at ease and unhappy his tone of revelry and enjoyment vainly masked the aching void within and where shall we find a more melancholy dirge than the following over a wasted life with all its knowledge and genius if coming had been in my power i would not have come if going had been in my power i would not go oh best of all lots if in this world of clay i had come not nor gone nor been at all and if the present was dark darker still seemed the future its darkness made even the present seem bright ere death raises his night attack on thy head bid them bring the rose-red wine no gold art thou poor brain-sick fool that once buried they should dig thee out again How different from the feeling of good old Isaac Walton when he stood by the open grave of his friend Dr. Dunn and thought of that body which once was a temple of the Holy Ghost and is now become a small quantity of Christian dust, but I shall see it reanimated.
Algy PugVOICE_ACTOR
End of section Section 3 of a Second Rubaiyat Miscellany.
Algy PugVOICE_ACTOR
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
And so back to the brook.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
In good truth, it is a beautiful brook, and one that Walton himself might have sitted by and loved, for trout are there.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
We see them as they dart up the stream, and hear and start at the sudden plunge when they spring to the surface for the summer flies.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
Isaac Walton would have loved our brook and our quiet meadows.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
They breathe the very spirit of his own peacefulness, a soothing quietude that sinks into the soul.
Anne Fletcher HobartNARRATOR
There is no path through them, not one.
David WalesNARRATOR
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field.
David WalesNARRATOR
Chapter Seven The Delights of Fender Fishing I should like to have met Isaac Walton.
David WalesNARRATOR
He is one of the few authors whom I know I should like to have met, for he was a wise man and he had understanding.
David WalesNARRATOR
I should like to have gone angling with him, for I doubt not that like myself he was more of an angler theoretically than practically.
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