 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humor were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of...high, equalled only by his great wit; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a... | |
 | John Donne - 1840 - 356 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of...high, equalled only by his great wit, both being made useful by a commanding judgment. His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1852 - 174 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. His fancy was inimitahly high, equalled ouly hy his great wit; hoth heing made useful hy a commanding judgment. His... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...Archbishop Whitgift himself. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgment.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 182 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of...high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contem pered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. His... | |
 | Susan Hayes Ward - Christian poetry, American - 1872 - 252 pages
...heart. We there read — " The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of...high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. He did much contemplate (especially after he had entered his sacred... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humor were in him so contempered that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgment.... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - Humorists - 1880 - 264 pages
..." Melancholy and pleasant humour," says Isaac Walton, " were in him so co-tempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of...high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. While secretary to Lord Ellesmere, the Keeper of the Great Seal, he... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1884 - 498 pages
...addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit; both being made useful by a commanding judgment. 1... | |
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He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equallyproportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to... 
