| Sir Thomas Frankland - 1801 - 52 Seiten
...famous ditch at a Canter. B 3 withstanding that some of his wag friends may define Angling to be a stick and a string, with a Worm at one end, and a Fool at the other, and that he may find Diachylon an expensive article on having rode a mile or two extraordinary.... | |
| 1821 - 970 Seiten
...hours,—we have been tempted to consider the definition of one of their number given by Swift, a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other, though somewhat severe, but half a libel. In the case before us the diversion had, however,... | |
| Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 Seiten
...visitors, and to make them comfortable and happy whilst there. Notwithstanding Swifts' remark of a 'stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.' Lord Byron has likewise anathematized angling as 'a solitary vice;' but we may say of Mr. Lodge,... | |
| 1822 - 386 Seiten
...of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,... | |
| Peter Hawker - 1826 - 512 Seiten
...Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling, or float-fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other." If, however, the poor angler should feel sore at the wit, he might, in his turn (if scavenger... | |
| 1833 - 388 Seiten
...angling, as that seurrilous fellow Swift, did: — namely, that it is a pastime performed with a rod and a string — with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other ! — But, softly, good Mr. Cynic ! — and just favor us with five minutes of your valuable... | |
| Caleb Ticknor - 1836 - 360 Seiten
...his mouth, and a dozen or two in his pocket. A British classic writer defined angling to be " a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other ;" and might not smoking, with equal propriety, bear a similar definition ? Chewing is, perhaps,... | |
| 1836 - 554 Seiten
...of an angler, by "a British classic writer," might be transferred to the other worthy: — "a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other"! Dr. Ticknor's fifth chapter is on dress. We have nothing to object to the general rules he... | |
| Peter Hawker - 1838 - 600 Seiten
...fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other." If, however, the poor angler should feel sore at the wit, he might, in his turn (if scavenger... | |
| James White - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...drew from the prejudiced and surly Dr. Johnson, the very amiable and agreeable expression,—" A stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." The truth is, that learned lexicographer was so short-sighted he could not see a float! and,... | |
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