... or not until the emergence of a strong Sunnising trend in recent centuries ...

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast.