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Lord Byron

Don Juan

On Angling

[1823] Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, CVI (London, 1823; >Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

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.* (108)

* It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports and old songs, teaches how to sew up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports.…No angler can be a good man. (112)