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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... them while they did so , and viviparous I always believed them to be ; for I could no more be mistaken , than that horse - tail hairs could turn into flukes . 10 MUSSELBURGH - ROSLIN CASTLE . Musselburgh . Within these COLTBRIDGE . 9.
... them while they did so , and viviparous I always believed them to be ; for I could no more be mistaken , than that horse - tail hairs could turn into flukes . 10 MUSSELBURGH - ROSLIN CASTLE . Musselburgh . Within these COLTBRIDGE . 9.
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... turning wet , and our habits being social , we all went to an honest ale - house for cakes and ale . The youths of Edinburgh at that time never met together but they discussed some- thing . There was little conversation then in Scotland ...
... turning wet , and our habits being social , we all went to an honest ale - house for cakes and ale . The youths of Edinburgh at that time never met together but they discussed some- thing . There was little conversation then in Scotland ...
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... turn aside to minor waters about Tynehead or Heriot , but go on gladly and rejoicingly with an honest and a cheerful heart , the characteristics of a true angler ; for when oiled with these , ' The wheels o ' life Gae down hill scrievin ...
... turn aside to minor waters about Tynehead or Heriot , but go on gladly and rejoicingly with an honest and a cheerful heart , the characteristics of a true angler ; for when oiled with these , ' The wheels o ' life Gae down hill scrievin ...
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... turn out more than £ 2000 each set , which would make £ 20,000 . But the introduction of Botany , Cape , and Australian wools , and more sets of machinery , now upwards of fifty sets , together with steam power , this amount you may now ...
... turn out more than £ 2000 each set , which would make £ 20,000 . But the introduction of Botany , Cape , and Australian wools , and more sets of machinery , now upwards of fifty sets , together with steam power , this amount you may now ...
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... turn in the conversation : — Piscator . It appears then , sir , that you spend a great deal of your time in fishing ? Gent . Yes I do , friend , from eight to nine months in the year . Pis . Of one who is so devoted to the sport , may I ...
... turn in the conversation : — Piscator . It appears then , sir , that you spend a great deal of your time in fishing ? Gent . Yes I do , friend , from eight to nine months in the year . Pis . Of one who is so devoted to the sport , may I ...
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Seite 65 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Seite 129 - 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 23 - But ye whom social pleasure charms, Whose hearts the tide of kindness warms, Who hold your being on the terms,
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 Harmonie of Fowles, he seeth the young Swans, Herons, Ducks, Cotes, and manie other Fowles, with theire Broods, which me seemeth better than alle the Noise of Hounds, Faukenors, and Fowlers can make. And if the Angler take Fysshe, then there is noe Man merrier than he is in his Spryte.
Seite 55 - 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 trouting river. It has a very fine ruin of a monastery, and a beautiful bridge over the Tweed. The Duke of...
Seite 11 - ... 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 swete savour of the meade of flowers that maketh him hungry: he heareth the melodious harmonie of fowles ; he seeth the young swans, herons, ducks, cotes, and many other fowles.
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.
Seite 91 - O to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Seite 62 - He also imagined that as many carriages and people would be passing his windows as when he stood at the door of his house. But now, where was he!— On the bounds of eternity ! 'Awful thought!' said he to himself ; ' were I to jump a yard or perhaps stir a foot, I might never again be heard of, my address being known only to myaelf; and having no relations, my goods and chattels, what would become of them in all the world!