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The Lives of Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, Dr. Sanderson
The Lives of Dr Donne Sir Henry Wotton Mr Richard Hooker Mr George Herbert Dr Sanderson Author:Izaak Walton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: H. Washbourne Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and t... more »here may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AN EPITAPH, WRITTEN BY DOCTOR CORBET,6 LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD, ON HIS FRIEND DR. DONNE. He that would write an Epitaph for thee, And write it well, must first begin to be Such as thou wert; for none can truly know Thy life and worth, but he that hath liv'd so : He must have Wit to spare, and to hurl down, Enough to keep the gallants of the town. He must have Learning plenty; both the Laws, Civil and common, to judge any cause. Divinity, great store, above the rest, Not of the last edition, but the best. He must have Language, Travel, all the Arts, Judgment to use, or else he wants thy parts. He must have friends the highest, able to do, Such as Mecsenas and Augustus too. He must have such a sickness, such a death, Or else his vain descriptions come beneath. He that would write an Epitaph for thee, Should first be dead; -- let it alone for me. 6 Dr. Richard Corbet, an eminent Divine and Poet, born at Ewell in Surrey, and educated at Westminster, whence he removed to Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1597-98. Upon entering into Holy Orders, he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to King James I.; and in July 1630, he was consecrated Bishop of Oxford. In April 1632, he was translated to the See of Norwich, and he died July 28th, 1635. He was, according to Aubrey, a very convivial man, and in his younger years, one of the most celebrated wits of the University, and his volume of Poems is both a rar...« less