 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.  The Sportsman - Seite 168Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1801 - 376 Seiten
...silent as to the best means of capturing them. However, I felt obliged for the information ; and * And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak...gullet Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it ! DON JUAN. 118 ANGLING IN FRANCE. as soon as I had determined on visiting Auvergne, I resolved to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 186 Seiten
...And the hard frost destroy'd the scenting days : And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb,...Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. (8) CVII. With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The conversazione; the duet, Attuned by voices... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 176 Seiten
...Christian in any book. — See Joseph Andrews, in the latter chapters. Note 8, page 108, stanza cvi. The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1823 - 424 Seiten
...angling too, that solitary vice, , Whateverlsaac Walton sines or saysV ' The quaint, old, cruel coscomb, in his gullet ^ , ..:! •Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. '.. , Nor will the note appended to this stanza allay their anger:— - •>* It would have tatigHtWifo... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 Seiten
...And the hard frost destroy'd the scenting days : And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb,...gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.7 cm. With evening came the banquet and the wine; The conversazione; the duct, Attuned by voices... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 Seiten
...scenting days: And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : Thequaint, co With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The convertazione ; the duet, Attuned by voices more or... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 Seiten
...BYRON has tlms denounced the sport of angling: " And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint, old cruel coxcomb...Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." Dm Juan, Canto XIII. His Lordship adds, in a note, " It would have tanght him humanity at least. This... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 Seiten
...• • * From Don Juan, Canto XII. Stanza CVI. " And Angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : The quaint old cruel coxcomb...Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it." fined taste. A noble lady, long distinguished at court for pre-eminent beauty and grace, and whose... | |
 | James Jennings - 1828 - 526 Seiten
...BYRON has thus denounced the sport of angling: " 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 tront to pull it." Don Juan, Canto XIII. His Lordship adds, in a note, " It would have tanght him humanity... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 Seiten
...vice,' and condemned its advocate aud apologist, izaak Walton, as ' a quaint old cruel coxcomb/ who ' in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet lias, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound... | |
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