 You are severe on Cockney fishermen, and, I suppose, would apply to them only, the observation of Dr. Johnson, which on a former occasion you would not allow to be just: " Angling is an amusement with a stick and a string; a worm at one end, and a fool...  Blackwood's Magazine - Trang 2711828Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Sir Thomas Frankland - 1801 - 52 trang
...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. I knew... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 426 trang
...sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit denned 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, and... | |
 | 1822 - 386 trang
...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, and... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 trang
...temptation of deeming him something worse than, as exhibited in Swift's definition, " a stick and a string, a worm at one end and a fool at the other." Nottingham. WH Now, as the sun declines, may lie seen, emerging from the surface of shallow streams,... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 trang
...which on a former occasion you would not allow to be just: " Angling is an amusement with a stick and a string; a worm at one end, and a fool at the other."...perpetual pursuit in as high a degree as you have ; and if we were to look at the real foundations of your pleasure, we should find them like most of... | |
 | 1828 - 1538 trang
...on a former occasion you would not allow to be just : ' Angling is an amusement with a stick and a string ; a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.'...perpetual pursuit in as high a degree as you have ; and if we were to look at the real foun^' dations of your pleasure, we should find them like most... | |
 | 1829 - 506 trang
...will in no way apply to the former. The Ucan of St. Patrick defined him thus : — " a stick and a string, a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." That this was dictated rather by a spirit of universal ridicule than by sound judgment, is the opinion... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 trang
...temptation of deeming him something worse than, as exhibited in Swift's definition, " a stick and a string, a worm at one end and a fool at the other." Nottingham. WH Now, as the sun declines, may be seen, emerging from the surface of shallow streams,... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 trang
...worm at one end, and a fool at the other." And to yourself you would pply it with this ch ange : " a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other."...perpetual pursuit in as high a degree as you have ; and if we were to look at the real foundations of your pleasure, we should find them, like most of... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 trang
...on a former occasion you would not allow to be just : " Angling is an amusement with a stick and a string ; a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." And to yourself you would pply it with this ch ange : " a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other." Yet the pleasure of... | |
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