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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... stands just above the house where the late Eagle Henderson lived , and few ever spent an evening with him that soon forgot it , ' Ah ! memory , whither art thou straying ? ' I well remember spending an evening here , and when put ashore ...
... stands just above the house where the late Eagle Henderson lived , and few ever spent an evening with him that soon forgot it , ' Ah ! memory , whither art thou straying ? ' I well remember spending an evening here , and when put ashore ...
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... generally easiest got , and stands throwing much longer . In my younger days , no person could tell what a par was , not even chemist and philosopher Davie , or the New 1 Chancellor.1 It is now pretty well known to be 42 THE VALE OF GALA .
... generally easiest got , and stands throwing much longer . In my younger days , no person could tell what a par was , not even chemist and philosopher Davie , or the New 1 Chancellor.1 It is now pretty well known to be 42 THE VALE OF GALA .
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... stands much longer on the hook ; in fact , the more it is torn and bitten with trout , they seem to take the better ; and you can cast it farther than even worm or minnow , as you have well fixed it on 1 Lord Brougham at Edinburgh ...
... stands much longer on the hook ; in fact , the more it is torn and bitten with trout , they seem to take the better ; and you can cast it farther than even worm or minnow , as you have well fixed it on 1 Lord Brougham at Edinburgh ...
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... Stands on the south side of the Ettrick , on the face of a hill , ' The Birse , ' and the Sutors of Selkirk are well known . It is famous , inas- much as they can show the colours which they brought off from the fatal battle of Flodden ...
... Stands on the south side of the Ettrick , on the face of a hill , ' The Birse , ' and the Sutors of Selkirk are well known . It is famous , inas- much as they can show the colours which they brought off from the fatal battle of Flodden ...
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... stands on the south side of the stream , faced on the opposite side by the remains of what is said to have been another of those ancient fastnesses , the river running between them . Here also it divides itself , and forms a small ...
... stands on the south side of the stream , faced on the opposite side by the remains of what is said to have been another of those ancient fastnesses , the river running between them . Here also it divides itself , and forms a small ...
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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 fins fisher flies flood frae gaff Gala Water Galashiels gentlemen grilse Hawick Hielan Highland hills Innerleithen Inverness 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 upper wade walk Water of Leith whir wind worm yards
Beliebte Passagen
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.