 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.  Quarterly Review - Page 1961858Full view - About this book
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1865 - 581 pages
...sparrowcide as severely as the first did the prince of anglers, Walton, in the well known lines : " The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." * * has filled all France with an intolerable cloud of sportsmen. *... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 pages
...shooting, he considered cruel. u 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." And, as if he feared not to have expressed strongly enough his aversion... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 1869 - 480 pages
...he considered cruel. " 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." And, as if he feared not to have expressed strongly enough his aversion... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1870 - 334 pages
...Canto xn. Stanza cvi. " 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." Yet in thy pages there doth lie So much of quaint simplicity, So much... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pages
...stream that meanders I think 'tis through Flanders ; One letter can make it, You cannot mistake it. 6. "The quaint old cruel coxcomb in his gullet Should have a hook and a small fish to pull it." 7. Oh ! x-\-x in algebra is drear, How different when drunk in Barclay's... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...added that "he was a great panegyrist. " — Boswell. Meek Walton's heavenly memory. — Wordsworth. The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook and a small trout to pull it. — Byron. Whether we consider the elegant simplicity of the style (of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1872 - 1060 pages
...stanza in " Don Juan " : — 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. In a footnote to this stanza Byron further stigmatises Izaak : " It would... | |
 | Karl Elze - Poets, English - 1872 - 554 pages
...he condemned as cruel : 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 trout to pull it.1 He who felt thus towards the animal world, could not, in spite of all... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1872 - 108 pages
...Waltz. ON ANGLING, BY LORD BYRON. " Angling, 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." " It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental sewage,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 pages
...destroy'd 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.';' With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The conversazione ; the... | |
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