| Charles Richard Weld - 1801 - 376 Seiten
...best means of capturing them. However, I felt obliged for the information ; and * And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or...gullet Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it ! DON JUAN. 118 ANGLING IN FRANCE. as soon as I had determined on visiting Auvergne, I resolved to... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 176 Seiten
...Christian in any book. — See Joseph Andrews, in the latter chapters. Note 8, page 108, stanza cvi. The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should...have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 186 Seiten
...And the hard frost destroy'd the scenting days : And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb,...Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. (8) CVII. With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The conversazione; the duet, Attuned by voices... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1823 - 424 Seiten
...angling too, that solitary vice, , Whateverlsaac Walton sines or saysV ' The quaint, old, cruel coscomb, in his gullet ^ , ..:! •Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. '.. , Nor will the note appended to this stanza allay their anger:— - •>* It would have tatigHtWifo... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 Seiten
...And the hard frost destroy'd the scenting days : And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb,...gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.7 cm. With evening came the banquet and the wine; The conversazione; the duct, Attuned by voices... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 Seiten
...scenting days: And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : Thequaint, co With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The convertazione ; the duet, Attuned by voices more or... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 Seiten
...• • * From Don Juan, Canto XII. Stanza CVI. " And Angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint old cruel coxcomb...Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it." fined taste. A noble lady, long distinguished at court for pre-eminent beauty and grace, and whose... | |
| James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 Seiten
...BYRON has tlms denounced the sport of angling: " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old cruel coxcomb...Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." Dm Juan, Canto XIII. His Lordship adds, in a note, " It would have tanght him humanity at least. This... | |
| James Jennings - 1828 - 526 Seiten
...BYRON has thus denounced the sport of angling: " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old cruel coxcomb in his gullet, Should have a hook, and a small tront to pull it." Don Juan, Canto XIII. His Lordship adds, in a note, " It would have tanght him humanity... | |
| 1828 - 592 Seiten
...vice,' and condemned its advocate and apologist, Ixaak Walton, as ' a quaint old cruel coxcomb,' who ' in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet has, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound... | |
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