 | Sir Thomas Frankland - 1801 - 52 pagine
...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 - 386 pagine
...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1822 - 382 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 386 pagine
...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... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 pagine
...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 apply it with this change: " a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other."... | |
 | 1828 - 1538 pagine
...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 apply it with this change : ' a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other.'... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 382 pagine
...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 apply it with this change : " A fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other."... | |
 | Caleb Ticknor - 1836 - 360 pagine
...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, as injurious... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 622 pagine
...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... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1840 - 414 pagine
...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 apply it with this change : " a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other."... | |
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And to yourself you would apply it with this change: " a fly at one end, and a philosopher at the other." Yet the pleasure of the Cockney Angler appears to... 
