 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 - Pàgina 2711828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1870 - 334 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 252 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1885 - 342 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - 394 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1867 - 420 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1902 - 590 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 562 pàgines
...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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