Tweed and Don; Or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years ...W.P. Nimmo, 1860 - 152 Seiten |
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... happy man who can at times shake off the world and its cares ; and with a contented mind , and a heart grateful for mercies received , enjoy all things in his great Father , and be happy and delighted whenever HE GOES A - FISHING ...
... happy man who can at times shake off the world and its cares ; and with a contented mind , and a heart grateful for mercies received , enjoy all things in his great Father , and be happy and delighted whenever HE GOES A - FISHING ...
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... happy with our sport , short as it was , and hungry as hawks . Ah ! how happy is the angler ! as Sir Thomas More says , ' If his sport should fail him , he at the least hath his holsom walk , and , mery at his ease , a swete ayre of the ...
... happy with our sport , short as it was , and hungry as hawks . Ah ! how happy is the angler ! as Sir Thomas More says , ' If his sport should fail him , he at the least hath his holsom walk , and , mery at his ease , a swete ayre of the ...
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... happy days — alas , never more to return , —still I give thanks for all I have had and enjoyed in this place - Its pastoral valleys by the Leithen ; the banks of the Tweed , its classic ground ; the Bonny Bush Aboon Traquair , ' of ...
... happy days — alas , never more to return , —still I give thanks for all I have had and enjoyed in this place - Its pastoral valleys by the Leithen ; the banks of the Tweed , its classic ground ; the Bonny Bush Aboon Traquair , ' of ...
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... happy to see a few honest anglers at their sport . Conforming to his request , you pass on , and the next pool for trout and salmon 1 In 1837 I took a bit of this old bush . It is now , I am told , all gone and decayed ; but a new bush ...
... happy to see a few honest anglers at their sport . Conforming to his request , you pass on , and the next pool for trout and salmon 1 In 1837 I took a bit of this old bush . It is now , I am told , all gone and decayed ; but a new bush ...
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... nest . He often put these in again , and the old pair had great difficulty to keep them all in food . But one morning , he found the little brood had been uncere- those once so happy here were permitted to revisit this 30 THE VALE OF GALA .
... nest . He often put these in again , and the old pair had great difficulty to keep them all in food . But one morning , he found the little brood had been uncere- those once so happy here were permitted to revisit this 30 THE VALE OF GALA .
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Aberdeenshire angle angler Ashiestiel bait banks basket beautiful Bonnie Tweed bridge burn capital cast Castle colour coming creeper delightful doubt Edinburgh endeavoured Ettrick feet fisher flies flood frae gaff Gala Water Galashiels gentlemen grilse Hawick Hielan Highland hills hooked a fish Innerleithen Inverness Inverury iron lantern Kemnay killed land large trout leister Loch looking Lord miles mill minnow morning nearly never o'er observe once ower mony fishing partail Pectoral Fin Peebles plenty poachers pool rapid places reel remember rise river rod fishing salmo salar salmon fishing Scotland sea trout season seen seldom Selkirk shallow places side smolts song soon spawning Spey sport stone stream tail There's ower mony thing told took trail fly tree Tweed at Thornilee Tynehead wade walk Water of Leith whir wind worm yards
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Seite 65 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Seite 101 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Seite 75 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Seite 11 - he at the best hathe " his holsom Walk and mery at his Ease, " a swete Ayre of the swete Savour of the " Meade of Flowers, that maketh him " hungry ; he heareth the melodious Har...
Seite 23 - Ev'n love an' friendship should give place To catch the plack! I dinna like to see your face Nor hear your crack. " But ye whom social pleasure charms, Whose heart the tide of kindness warms, Who hold your being on the terms Each aid the others, Come to my bowl, come to my arms, My friends and brothers.
Seite 55 - I'll sit me down and weary.' Old sony. At Roxburgh, the remains of the castle are only seen. Here it was that James II. of Scotland was killed in 1460, by the bursting of a cannon, made probably from the trunk of a tree, and hooped all round with iron. IJielso, Kelso is situated on the Tweed, in the very heart of fishing ground, near its confluence with the Teviot, a capital treating river.
Seite 64 - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.