Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland: To which is Added, the Contemplative and Practical AnglerA. Constable and Company, 1821 - 379 |
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Strona 175 - ... who lays the stress of his arguments upon other men's observations, wherewith he stuffs his indigested octavo; so brings himself under the angler's censure, and the common calamity of a plagiary, to be pitied (poor man) for his loss of time, in scribbling and transcribing other men's notions. These are the drones that rob the hive, yet flatter the bees they bring them honey.
Strona li - Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. Wherein most or all of the Cities, Citadels, Seaports, Castles, Forts, Fortresses, Rivers and Rivulets are compendiously described. Together with choice collections of various discoveries, remarkable observations, theological notions, political axioms, national intrigues, polemick inferences, contemplations, speculations, and several curious and industrious inspections, lineally drawn from antiquaries, and other noted and intelligible persons...
Strona 107 - I'le superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie ; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated fields, and every field so replenished with thistles that a flower could scarcely flourish amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise...
Strona 106 - I'le refer them to -the natives to evidence for me, which I am satisfied they will with ten thousand manifesto's. In the nest place, we are to consider the merchants and traders in this eminent Glasgow, whose store-houses and ware-houses are stuft with merchandize, as their shops swell big with foreign commodities, and returns from France, and other remote parts...
Strona 5 - Walton is introduced, can forbear wishing that the good old man, who had so true an eye for nature, so simple a taste for her most innocent pleasures, and withal, so sound a judgment, both concerning men and things, had made this northern tour instead of Franck ; and had detailed in the beautiful simplicity of his Arcadian language, his observations on the scenery and manners of Scotland.
Strona 105 - But this state-house, or tolbooth, is their western prodigy, infinitely excelling the model and usual built of town-halls ; and is, without exception, the paragon of beauty in the west ; whose compeer is no where to be found in the north, should you rally the rarities of all the corporations in Scotland. Here the reader (it's possible) may think I hyperbolize ; but let him not mistake himself, for I write no ambiguities : Truth stands naked in plain simplicity ; and partiality I abhor as a base imposture....
Strona iii - The best of fishes in my flood Shall give themselves to be her food. The trout, the dace, the pike, the breame, The eele, that loves the troubled streame, The miller's thombe, the hiding loach, The perch, the ever-nibling roach, The shoales with whom is Tavie fraught, The foolish gudgeon quickly caught, And last the little minnow-fish, Whose chiefe delight in gravell is.
Strona 6 - Franck's contests with salmon are painted to the life, and his directions to the angler are generally given with great judgement. Walton's practice was entirely confined to bait-fishing, and even Cotton, his disciple and follower, though accustomed to fish trout in the Dove, with artificial fly, would have been puzzled by a fish (for so the salmon is called, par excellence, in most parts of Scotland), of twenty pounds weight ; both being alike strangers to that noble branch of the art, which exceeds...
Strona 6 - Walton, in the mystery of fly-fishing, as inferior to him in taste, feeling, and common sense. Franck's contests with salmon are painted to the life, and his directions to the angler are generally given with great judgment.
Strona 363 - Commerce had already brought wealth to Glasgow, and with wealth seems to have arisen an attention to the decencies and conveniences of life, unknown as yet in other parts of Scotland.