 | Charles Richard Weld - 1801 - 376 pages
...the information ; and * 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 ! DON JUAN. 118 ANGLING IN FRANCE. as soon as I had determined on visiting Auvergne,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 176 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...destroy'd the scenting days : 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.7 cm. With evening came the banquet and the wine; The conversazione; the duct,... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...scenting days: And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Isaac Walton sings or says : Thequaint, co small trout to pull it. With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The convertazione ; the duet,... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 pages
...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 trout to pull it." Dm Juan, Canto XIII. His Lordship adds, in a note, " It would have tanght... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 300 pages
...Canto XII. Stanza CVI. " 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." fined taste. A noble lady, long distinguished at court for pre-eminent beauty... | |
 | James Jennings - 1828 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...destroy'd the scenting days : 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." CVII. With evening came the banquet and the wine ; The conversazione; the... | |
 | Ethelinda Margaretta Potts - 1832 - 256 pages
...recreations, I have avoided as sins." Lord Byron will, perhaps, be by the present age more attended to:— " 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. The sentimental savage, whom... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...writes in Don Juan of- — ' Angling, too, that solitary vice, Whate ver Izaak 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. 
