| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2342 |
| AUTHOR: | Izaak Walton (1593–1683) |
| QUOTATION: | Oh, the gallant fisher’s life!
It is the best of any;
’T is full of pleasure, void of strife,
And ’t is beloved by many. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Angler. (John Chalkhill.) 1 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1.
In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: “Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser.”
Chalkhill,—a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Chalkhill is no other than our old piscatory friend incognito.—Zouch: Life of Walton. [back] |
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