 | Sir Thomas Frankland - Shooting - 1801 - 52 pages
...the famous ditch at a Canter. B 3 withstanding that some of his wag friends may define Angling to be a stick and a string, with a Worm at one end, and a Fool at the other, and that he may find Diachylon an expensive article on having rode a mile or two extraordinary. I knew... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1805 - 572 pages
...call m the aid of Swift's well known satirical description of it, as exhibiting only " a stick anda string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." The pursuit, however, may teach patience, and, as the younger Pliny says of hunting, may be eminently... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 352 pages
...angling. Being asked by a little girl what a fish-rod was, he replied, " It means, my dear, a long stick with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." A new way of paying a Debt. — A prisoner in the Fleet Prison, London, lately sent to his creditor... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 386 pages
...monument of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...dozen hours,—we have been tempted to consider the definition of one of their number given by Swift, a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other, though somewhat severe, but half a libel. In the case before us the diversion had, however, its incidental... | |
 | Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 pages
...tlieir visitors, and to make them comfortable and happy whilst there. Notwithstanding Swifts' remark of a 'stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.' Lord Byron has likewise anathematized angling as 'a solitary vice;' but we may say of Mr. Lodge, that... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1822 - 382 pages
...monument of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...monument of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,... | |
 | Richard Dagley - Death - 1828 - 562 pages
...define In sportive derision, each ANGLING brother, As " a stick and a string (id estt rod and line) With a worm at one end and a. fool at the other;" * Dean Swift. Yet, believe me, no fool is the man who in quiet Can sit down contented amid the world's... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 396 pages
...regenerated, and disenthralled.' This includes more than the definition of angling — ' a rod and line, with a worm at one end and a fool at the •other;' for here is a fool at each end. But it would be an endless task to describe the Hindoo superstitions,... | |
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling, or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other. 
