 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 432 páginas
...Izaac, when he says, — " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaak Walton sings or says ; The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." And even a modern author on angling, who must at least be given credit for... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1878 - 334 páginas
...at least free from all objections, and will not lay the angler open to Byron's denunciation.-— " The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet, Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it; " A disciple of Izaac Walton's thus writes :— The best hours of the day to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 páginas
...destroyed the scenting days : And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says : The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. evil. When evening came the banquet and the wine; The conversazione ; the duct,... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1883 - 176 páginas
...Izaak, when he says — " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says ; The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." Some persons say they can see an expression of cruelty in Walton's portraits... | |
 | 1883 - 718 páginas
...Izaak, when he says — " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says ; The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." Some persons say they can see an expression of cruelty in Walton's portraits... | |
 | Richard Glover - 1883 - 136 páginas
...stake, Nor feigns to be sleeping when quite wide-awake ! 3 A famous trout-stream in Hampshire. 4 " The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." "Don Juan." 9. But granted 'tis so, yet poor fish know no better, While you... | |
 | 1883 - 356 páginas
...destroy'd the scenting days; And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaac Walton sings or says ; The quaint old cruel coxcomb in his gullet, Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." Another famous satirist of the old school defines angling as " a stick and... | |
 | Richard Glover - 1883 - 132 páginas
...stake, Nor feigns to be sleeping when quite wide-awake 1 3 A famous trout-stream in Hampshire. * " The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." "Don Juan." 9. But granted 'tis so, yet poor fish know no better, While you... | |
 | John Anderson - 1884 - 184 páginas
...splenetically writes — " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says, The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small fish to pull it." Both undoubtedly mighty men in their way ; but the one great in his prejudice,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 páginas
...angler, thus refers to him :— " Angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says; The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." But people in the seventeenth century concerned themselves little or nothing... | |
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And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. 
