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" 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 - Pagina 271
1828
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Salmonia; Or: Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Accounts of the Habits of ...

Sir Humphry Davy - 1870 - 334 pagine
...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...
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The Dovorian

Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pagine
...I.— THE FIRST BITE. Doctor Johnson's definition of a fishing-rod was as follows : — " a stick with a worm at one end and a fool at the other;" and, with a few modifications and exceptions, many will feel inclined to agree with this dictum of the learned...
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The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry ...

1880 - 250 pagine
...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." W. LANDING A TROUT. BY DR. UP DE GRAFF. UT see, there's a rise ! Yes, another, still ! Yonder, under...
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Historical Richmond

Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1885 - 342 pagine
...Although angling has been described by Swift, with his usual sarcasm, as a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other, and though it has been pronounced by Lord Byron to be a solitary vice, there are a great many who still...
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Kings of the Rod, Rifle, and Gun, Volume 1

Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - 394 pagine
...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 then to yourself you would apply it with this change : ' A fly at one end and a philosopher at the...
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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 13

1867 - 416 pagine
...ashamed of it, albeit a crabbed old gentleman once observed that it consisted in a stick and thread, a worm at one end, and a fool at the other. And now, kind reader, f^will venture to suggest that sport of every description hath its charms ; and if...
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The Sewanee Review, Volumi 1-10

1902 - 590 pagine
...ignorance and indifference probably gave rise to the libel that fishing consisted of "a stick and a string, a worm at one end and a fool at the other." Dr. Samuel Johnson and other writers have been unjustly censured as the authors of this fling, which...
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The Citizen

1823 - 562 pagine
...fishes are with a hook. It has been said of olden time that a fishing-rod is a long piece of wood, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and, in the case of the individual now under consideration, we tliink the definition will sufficiently hold....
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