 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 - Page 2711828Full view - About this book
 | Caleb Ticknor - Conduct of life - 1836 - 360 pages
...dozen or two in his pocket. A British classic writer defined angling to be " a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other ;" and might not smoking, with equal propriety, bear a similar definition ? Chewing is, perhaps, as injurious... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...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." Nottingham. <« WH Now, as the sun declines, mav be seen, emerging from the surface of shallow streams,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...templatiun 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." Nottingham. WH Now, as the sun declines, may be seen, emerging from the surface of shallow streams,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...Here lite a ninny, and there bange a hook, given in 6 th S. iii. 87 in its prose form, " a stick and a string, a worm at one end and a fool at the other," as commonly, though without foundation, attributed to Swift or Johnson, and traced by MR. PINKERTON,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 558 pages
...Here aits a ninny, and there bangs a book, given in 601 S. iii. 87 in its prose form, " a stick and a string, a worm at one end and a fool at the other," as commonly, though without foundation, attributed to Swift or Johnson, and traced by MR. PINKERTON,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pages
...on a former occasion you would not allow to he 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...on a former occasion you would not allow to he just : " Angling is an amusement witli 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 pages
...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 he has the happiness of constant occupation ami perpetual pursuit in as high a degree as you have ; and if we were to look at the real foundations... | |
 | William Wright - Fish-culture - 1858 - 422 pages
...agreeable expression of his opinion — that it was an amusement carried on by " a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." And he, in the plenitude of his self-conceit and ill-nature, fancied himself a wit, in uttering this sarcasm.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 pages
...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."...of much the same kind, and perhaps more continuous thiin yours ; and he has the happiness of constant occupation and perpetual pursuit in as high a degree... | |
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