 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 enough to descend to verbal criticism), have a  Notes and Queries - Sida 4441915Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Sir Thomas Frankland - 1801 - 52 sidor
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1805 - 572 sidor
...the aid of Swift's well known satirical description of it, as exhibiting only " a stick anda string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." The pursuit, however, may teach patience, and, as the younger Pliny says of hunting, may be eminently... | |
 | 1821 - 970 sidor
...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, its incidental... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1821 - 488 sidor
...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, its incidental... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 426 sidor
...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 - 504 sidor
...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."...scavenger enough to descend to verbal criticism), have a little pleasantry with the philologer, by brandishing his rod and exclaiming, " almost as bad, good"... | |
 | 1831 - 546 sidor
...or any other fish that I could, regardless of Johnson's definition of angling,—" A rod and line, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." But the murdered bird now began to speak to me when I impaled a grasshopper or an angle-worm on my... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 sidor
...a noble diversion, although that old cynic, Johnson, has defined the fishing-rod to be " a long rod with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." There is no sport which more completely illustrates the grand law of nature than this; we find the... | |
 | Caleb Ticknor - 1836 - 360 sidor
...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 ? I Chewing is, perhaps, as... | |
 | 1836 - 554 sidor
...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"! i ( Dr. Ticknor's fifth chapter is on dress. We have nothing to object to the general rules he lays... | |
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